Why don't they buy some decommissioned nuclear plants and repurpose their containment vessels to hold batteries?
Posted on 02/22/2022 3:38:01 PM PST by karpov
The largest lithium-ion battery in the world experienced a meltdown over the weekend, its second in five months.
An energy storage facility owned by Vistra Energy in Moss Landing, California, triggered fire alarms on the evening of Feb. 13. Four fire trucks responded to the event and found around ten battery packs in the facility melted entirely, according to local broadcaster KSBW.
“The building’s systems contained the event without the need for outside assistance,” the company said in a Feb. 15 statement on the outage. “There are no injuries to personnel. An investigation is underway to determine what caused the safety system to activate. While this is in its very early stages, what we know is the water-based suppression system released water that contacted some batteries.”
Though it’s too early to know how the meltdown started, North Monterey County fire district chief Joel Mendoza told KSBW that the facility’s fire suppression system was activated and had successfully cooled the batteries when his team arrived on the scene "to the point that there wasn't any flame or fire.
This is the second time in five months that the 300-megawatt facility has gone offline due to battery issues. The plant was less than a year old when the first incident took place in September, setting off sprinklers that damaged around 7,000 batteries, or 7 percent of the facility’s nearly 100,000 battery modules.
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The most recent incident highlights how fragile battery storage systems are: Lithium-ion batteries ignite easily and the fires they generate are difficult to contain. Water only reacts with lithium—it doesn’t put lithium fires out. This poses problems for energy storage companies like Vistra, which are crucial to the renewable energy transition.
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You greenies have fun with your torchmobiles. I’ll buy a new vett with a motor to last till I check out from this madhouse 🤪
Driving a BBQ
Why don't they buy some decommissioned nuclear plants and repurpose their containment vessels to hold batteries?
Yes! We need millions more of these things on the street!
Lefties think you can just wish technology into existence.
That's the ticket! Use water sprinklers on a lithium fire! It would make even more sense to pour water on a sodium battery fire.
Yep! ;-) And I haven’t even applied for my “Wind turbines cause climate change (temp. rise) downwind...” government study grant yet!! I might follow it up with a “solar panel farms cause animal/mammal/insect habitat destruction by shading” government study grant application!!
I think the fire on the car carrier Felicity Ace is the tip of the iceberg that will sink electric cars. Electric cars are a stupid idea that has become mainstream in a kind of Green hysteria. The thing that will quelch the fire for Greenieness is insurance. Frankly, I’m surprised it hasn’t already killed electric cars. That’s because insurance companies are all about profit and the nearly unlimited fire risks of cars will make insurance the single most important financial driver. It’s probably going to take a few huge payouts and the resulting premium increases will quell the urge for “normal” non-virtue signaling people to buy electric cars.
Yap, when the torchmobile stalls from dead battery, it must be towed to a charging station, or call a gas powered truck towing a diesel burning charger.
It worked!
I have a lithium ion battery for my cpap machine incase of power outages. I keep it inside a fireproof safe just incase it decides to “spontaneously combust”.
” That’s because insurance companies are all about profit and the nearly unlimited fire risks of cars will make insurance the single most important financial driver. “
ICE cars have a higher fire risk.
critical mass...
Park them outside away from flammables. Also funny to trick the catalytic converter thieves.
Lithium ion batteries do not contain metallic lithium (weird, huh?). I think cooling by flooding water is one of very few ways to extinguish Li-ion batteries.
Tricky because wouldn’t a Li-ion battery manufacturer have to have metallic lithium on site? As noted, water on metallic lithium would be disastrous.
Corporate announced today that they signed an ESG pledge to be Carbon Neutral by 2050.
We have 7,000 employees in Singapore, that gets 98% of its electricity from Fossil Fuels.
They work 3 shifts there so 1.5 of those shifts are in the dark, so if we are going try to do “Carbon Neutral” with Solar, we are going to need enough Lithium Ion batteries to burn the entire Island down.
The LIon City is going to mean something different in the future.
Was thinking that very thing when the snowstorm hit the east coast.
At least a towering can dump some gas in you to get you going again, but an EV would require a high dollar tow to someplace with a charging station
$10 worth of gas or $500+ towjob. What a choice
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