S1E74 - Why Lithium Batteries SUCK

Can Hannah convince Michael that the lithium-ion battery is one of our most overrated inventions to ever happen?

Hannah makes her case using a surprising energy source hidden in your fridge, a bell in Oxford that's been ringing since 1840, and a metal that is useful… but prone to bursting into flame from the inside out.

Tracing the battery's strange history, from a twitching dead frog to the executed man who helped inspire Frankenstein.

But the real point runs deeper: we don't have an energy problem, we have a storage issue, and...