Tesla Semi fire in California took 50k gallons of water to extinguish

Re:Tesla Semi fire in California took 50k gallons of water t... by atomic128 on Friday September 13, 2024 @04:20PM (#41534741)

If you haven't seen a Tesla burn uncontrollably, emitting clouds of very poisonous smoke, search for video and watch it.

Same thing happens to e-bike batteries; you can find video of a man being spontaneously incinerated after carrying his e-bike battery into an elevator.

And of course the same thing happens to battery storage for the grid. Battery farms spontaneously start burning and it just spreads and spreads.

I think of this every time somebody argues that nuclear fission can be replaced by solar/wind + huge battery farms. For example, see the recent discussion here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41526789

Imagine the battery fire.

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Re:Tesla Semi fire in California took 50k gallons of water t... by svaha1728 on Friday September 13, 2024 @04:29PM (#41534827)

I cringed when Musk embraced lithium-ion batteries for grid storage, there were better chemistries out there that got ignored. Guessing it set us back 20 years for that application.

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Re:Tesla Semi fire in California took 50k gallons of water t... by tim333 on Friday September 13, 2024 @05:59PM (#41535581)

I guess with grid batteries you can space them out to avoid that.

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