300 Megawatt Tesla battery catches fire

Re:300 Megawatt Tesla battery catches fire by waiseristy on Friday July 30, 2021 @11:01PM (#28014866)

None of these things are ticking time bombs, they are things with (other than your electricity inside your house) fairly fantastic failure modes.

A Lithium Ion battery pack will experience cascade failure in it's lifetime. A tank full of gasoline will not, neither will the circuit panel in your home.

Will that battery pack catch fire when it inevitably fails? Who knows, but that's exactly the problem.

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Re:300 Megawatt Tesla battery catches fire by kcb on Friday July 30, 2021 @11:10PM (#28014927)

Yet somehow nearly every house is filled with a dozen or more lithium ion batteries.

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Re:300 Megawatt Tesla battery catches fire by waiseristy on Friday July 30, 2021 @11:25PM (#28014992)

Ah yeah, and what happens when you increase that number 100x? Adding a powerwall to your house will increase the battery count in your home by 1,000 or more.

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Re:300 Megawatt Tesla battery catches fire by vidarh on Saturday July 31, 2021 @04:30AM (#28016440)

Less than a year since the last house with a gas explosion nearish me.

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