Laptop fire blamed for Vancouver death
“It was one of the most intense fires I had ever seen,” he said. “The child’s mother was standing within 50 feet of it hollering, ‘My baby, my baby.’ And there was a feeling of being so helpless.”
https://www.autosafety.org/child-dies-car-fire/
Two Children Die in a Car Fire While an Anonymous Hero Saves Their Mother
https://news.amomama.com/294931-two-children-die-a-car-fire-while-anonym.html
can hardly believe taxpayer-funded, climate hysterics ABC Australia are finally reporting some inconvenient truths about lithium-ion battery fires.
note the QFES admission they haven’t been focusing on these fires until now! figures for state of Queensland (pop approx 5million).
note they claim they happen predominantly when they are charging...except for when they are just put in the trash can and get shaken & stirred!
finally, and probably the reason for the article in the first place, there’s the admission lithium-ion may be on the way out!
if they abandon lithium-ion, will the expensive roll-out of electric chargers work with their replacement, or will a whole new set of chargers have to be funded worldwide?
17 Sept: ABC Australia: Fears fires caused by lithium-ion batteries will ‘increase considerably’ as popularity of electric scooters rises
By Melanie Vujkovic
There were 46 fires ignited by the common type of batteries in Queensland during the last financial year.
This is the first time statistics specifically listing them as the cause of a blaze have been kept, after Queensland Fire and Emergency Service (QFES) crews noticed it becoming more common.
Superintendent Mark Halverson, executive manager of QFES’s safety section, said the number is “increasing rapidly”...
(Ruth Knibbe, a researcher at the University of Queensland’s School of Mechanical and Mining Engineering): “The fires predominantly occur when your battery is charging.”...
Superintendent Halverson said people should also take care when disposing of batteries, whether because they have reached their use-by date or they have been damaged...
Brisbane City Council said over the past three years there had been 28 known instances of garbage trucks having to dump their loads onto the street after catching fire, however the cause of these fires cannot always be determined...
Researchers at the University of Queensland are among teams around the world trying to develop a “faster-charging and more sustainable” aluminium-ion battery alternative...
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-09-17/qld-lithium-ion-battery-fires-risk/101428618
Anyone who has seen a lithium battery burn will know what a problem this is.
I poked a hole in a phone battery while trying to replace it and the damned thing went off like a sparkler and just as hot. We had to toss it out the window to prevent a house fire.
Let’s all fly on airplanes powered by lithium batteries!
I don’t think they’re going to get a whole nation into lithium battery cars. They’ll try to compel most folks to take public transit on lithium torch-buses.
“Scooter battery blamed for Queens blaze that killed 8-year-old girl”
What kind of parent buys a product with a Lithium Battery when there is an 8 year old in the house?