Posted on 12/27/2023 6:55:36 AM PST by Red Badger
bttt
Next time try covering with loads of dirt. Mount Electric.
Enough to fill a very large swimming pool
As I understand it, an EV (lithium)battery burns under water because of the oxygen in the water. Dirt is supposed to smother the flames and deprive the fire of oxygen and it then goes out. Unless there is a different cumbustion process at work for EV battery fires.
Alright. My understanding is incomplete. Just another reasob not to get an EV if fires are so difficult to put out!
Pretend they are Oil Well fires and blow the damned thing up to extinguish the flames.
I don’t think you can deprive the fire from oxygen. It’s built in.
As I understand it you can also spray it down with Ground up Liberals.
Why didn’t they just let it burn out? Seems like it was threatening nothing nearby.......
Please translate....
Letting it burn takes how long ? and does it matter where it’s at ?
I was a firefighter. Our main engine was a Spartan Metro Star with 1,000 gal capacity. In all the car fires to which we responded, we never had to suction our Peterbilt Tanker.
After the fires it usually took 300-600 gals to top off.
Doesn’t work that way.
Chemical fire......................
Maybe it won’t, but I would love to watch them try a few thousand times...
I really need to remember to do a little research first before commenting.
Here’s a short article that explains action-oriented methods for putting out EV fires. And why none of them are ultimately as good as just lettinv the thing burn itself.
“I assume someone is working on a foam or some other method of putting out these battery fires.”
Foam is available. Most counties and towns can’t afford it. Big cities are more likely to have it.
Last paragraph of the above article:
“If the battery box is intact and there are no exposures, the best solution is to simply wait for the battery to burn itself out, then extinguish the remaining class A fire. While this strategy is not ideal – and not one favored by aggressive, proactive and eager firefighters – it’s really the best approach. It should only take an hour for the battery to burn itself out. The alternative will be to continually dump water on the vehicle for 6 to 8 hours.”
Gas fire: 1,500 degrees, once out it’s out.
Battery fire: 4,500 degrees, can reignite days or weeks later.
On the bright side, 33-year-old Mr. Michael Sherrill will not have to worry about junking his EV when the clock hits 100k and there are no buyers for it. He just “sold” it to his insurance company.
Electric cars are imperfect—its like Nuke power==Once thought to solve all our problems. We haven’t figured out nukes yet—what to do with the spent rods—Same with the cars. We will figure them out—in time. Maybe 100 years. Once people thought we would be driving nuclear cars too.
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