Eli5: Why do charged electronics (Game controllers, eReaders,) lose their charge when they’re not being used?
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In a broader sense, they lose charges because of entropy. Entropy is universal, eternal, and will literally be the end of the universe. The sun is low entropy, and moving towards high entropy as it will die. In this specific case, high entropy means a higher portion of its energy (potential, kynitic, etc) is unavailable for work.
Your battery is in a low entropy state if it’s charged, and laws of thermodynamics tells us that any state of low entropy will tend to go to go higher or go the same from any spontaneous action. We create insulation between cells to prevent this, but nothing is perfect and nothing beats entropy in the end.
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