Li-ion battery warehouse fire put out with Portland cement (2021)

Re:Li-ion battery warehouse fire put out with Portland cemen... by almost_usual on Monday September 12, 2022 @09:18PM (#32819609)

So what happens after the next big earthquake in a place like SF?

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Re:Li-ion battery warehouse fire put out with Portland cemen... by themitigating on Monday September 12, 2022 @09:32PM (#32819735)

Why would an earthquake directly cause batteries to set on fire? They are already subjected to significantly more vibration and movement in EVs

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Re:Li-ion battery warehouse fire put out with Portland cemen... by almost_usual on Monday September 12, 2022 @09:38PM (#32819775)

Big earthquake implies things like UMBs collapsing.

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Re:Li-ion battery warehouse fire put out with Portland cemen... by p1mrx on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @12:29AM (#32820650)

What are UMBs?

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Re:Li-ion battery warehouse fire put out with Portland cemen... by rzzzt on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @01:53AM (#32821051)

Upper Memory Blocks, the area between the 640 KiB and 1 MiB range that becomes available on 286+ machines in real mode once the A20 address line is no longer held low by the keyboard controller.

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Re:Li-ion battery warehouse fire put out with Portland cemen... by p1mrx on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @01:00PM (#32827010)

Thanks, I should add MEMMAKER.EXE to my earthquake kit.

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Re:Li-ion battery warehouse fire put out with Portland cemen... by almost_usual on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @10:39AM (#32824866)

Ureinforced Masonry Building, any firefight in SF will tell you the city is full of them.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unreinforced_masonry_buildin...

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Re:Li-ion battery warehouse fire put out with Portland cemen... by proto_lambda on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @03:02AM (#32821415)

No idea, but from context, maybe they meant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_Dwelling_Unit? Really weird phrasing either way.

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Re:Li-ion battery warehouse fire put out with Portland cemen... by almost_usual on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @10:39AM (#32824859)

Ureinforced Masonry Building, any firefight in SF will tell you the city is full of them.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unreinforced_masonry_buildin...

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Re:Li-ion battery warehouse fire put out with Portland cemen... by sudosysgen on Monday September 12, 2022 @09:34PM (#32819750)

Crushing.

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