A Giant Tesla Battery Caught Fire… And They Just Let It Burn
In this video, John Cadogan discusses a giant Tesla grid storage battery fire which continues to burn in one of Queensland’s first large-scale battery storage system.
It was still on fire more than 12 hours after it first entered a state of thermal runaway between 7pm and 8pm on the 26th of September.
This mad rush to Electric Utopia continues to set exciting new records.
Source: YouTube
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Richard Greene
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They “let” it burn because the fire was impossible to put out with the equipment on site and no fire fighters with sense wanted to go near the toxic fumes.
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Carmel
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This is what happens when there’s a seriously flawed energy policy in place that supports expensive and dangerous renewable energy junk technologies.
From the outset there have been those who have pointed out the high fire and explosive risks of lithium ion batteries at any scale but especially so in electric vehicles and Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS).
Fire Service personnel are wise to let these batteries (that burn at a very high temperature and that are potentially highly explosive) burn out and to keep at a safe distance from the toxic fluoride gases especially hydrogen fluoride.
It has taken a while but finally insurance companies are beginning to cop on to the risks associated with theses batteries.
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2023/sep/30/the-quotes-were-5000-or-more-electric-vehicle-owners-face-soaring-insurance-costs
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Carmel
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The first Giant Batteries were installed in Australia in unpopulated areas.
A major issue is that so many more of these Giant ticking toxic Battery Bombs have since been installed in built up populated areas all over the world without any proper risk assessment having been done even when requested/suggested during the planning application process prior to their installation.
How are these Giant Batteries ever to be safely removed and safely disposed of?
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Howdy
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Why bother putting it out when the pollution and damage is of no consequence? That’s It when a scam is in operation. The usual safety concerns and fallout don’t matter. It’s all ‘part of the service’. Yet when your vehicle generates a wisp of smoke due to a momentary misfire, a ton of bricks suddenly appears overhead.
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Wisenox
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“It has taken a while but finally insurance companies are beginning to cop on to the risks associated with theses batteries.”
Translation: “there weren’t enough EV owners to pull the scam, but now there is, so it’s time to make money.”
Doing the same with solar. They’ll subsidize and promote cheap solar, but they are going to turn around and add a point to insurance, charge the homeowner for maintenance and upkeep, then spring the bad news that disposal costs are on them too.
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Michael Clarke
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A horrifying litany of failures!
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