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4. Wind and Solar Are, Lithium Batteries Are Not

Tue Sep 9, 2025, 10:12 PM

Sep 9

It can take days and 10s of thousands of gallons of water to extinguish just one runaway vehicle battery burning at 1200 degrees F. Of course, all that water runoff has (in additon to the carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide) polutants that are highly toxic like hydrogen fluoride and hydrogen cyanide in it. Not "The Earth dies in 100 years toxic", but "You die today" toxic. I'd rather wait on widespread mass storage of solar and wind until we have more sane storage methods. I wouldn't want my home anywhere near a municipal battery reservoir, but that's maybe just me?

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Energy department said wind and solar capacity is 'worthless' without sunlight or wind. Musk reminds DoE about batteries [View all] Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 9 OP

Supermassive Battery Fires You Can't Put Out OC375 Sep 9 #1

Well it's a fuckload better than coal Blues Heron Sep 9 #3

Wind and Solar Are, Lithium Batteries Are Not OC375 Sep 9 #4

Even with an accidental fires it's better than coal because most of the facilities - wait for it- don't catch fire Blues Heron Sep 9 #5

There's a coal fire that's been burning under Centralia, PA since 1962... haele Sep 9 #6

Frequency vs Severity OC375 Sep 9 #7

Here's the problem. OAITW r.2.0 Sep 9 #2

Anyone pointed out to him canetoad Sep 9 #8

There'd be no problem RandomNumbers Sep 13 #9