Energy department said wind and solar capacity is 'worthless' without sunlight or wind. Musk reminds DoE about batteries

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

They had to evacuate the town twenty years later.
It's still burning. 300 meters a year.
Gasoline fires can also smolder, there for a while, there were problems with Fords catching fire in garages due to design and production problem in the engine compartment, and, say - I haven't even started talking about the occasional gasoline refinery fire during the 1950's through 70's I remember while growing up in California back then.
So, yeah...all forms of energy are pretty much risky. Especially when the people running the energy markets prefer to follow the dictum of end stage capitalism -- "socialized risks and privatized profits,"