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Cargo ship carrying burning lithium ion batteries reaches Alaska but is kept offshore amid frantic battle to extinguish the blaze as crew fears explosion
Daily Mail ^
| 12/31/23
| Alice Wright
Posted on 12/31/2023 2:46:09 PM PST by Libloather
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To: Libloather
More like “EV molten puddle of aluminum sale.”
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posted on
12/31/2023 5:24:04 PM PST
by
ProtectOurFreedom
(“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
To: Libloather
How do you safely ship batteries in bulk like this when you still don’t understand how to prevent spontaneous combustion?
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posted on
12/31/2023 5:31:33 PM PST
by
rottndog
(What comes after America?)
To: All
i am 100% certain that there is a sci-fi film script lurking in this story. somewhere, somehow...
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posted on
12/31/2023 6:38:36 PM PST
by
SteveH
To: bray
Oregon has one of the largest lithium deposits in the world, Biden just declared it national monument. When can Biden be declared the national fossil, put on display at the Smithsonian, and stopped from causing further trouble?
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posted on
12/31/2023 6:40:29 PM PST
by
magooey
(The Mandate of Heaven resides in the hearts of men.)
To: Steely Tom
Yeah, all that work they did on non-flammable gasoline really improved things. But you don’t have to be meticulous about what temperature your gas tank is before you can fill it, and if it gets dented it doesn’t initiate a thermal runaway. It’s also much easier to put out a gasoline fire, should it occur, versus lithium fires which cannot be put out.
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posted on
12/31/2023 6:44:35 PM PST
by
noiseman
(The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
To: wjcsux
“One more cargo ship is heading to the scrapyard.”
They said they released carbon dioxide into the hold. That’s useless against a LI battery fire.
Wonder how tightly the batteries are packed together.
To: cymbeline
Take the ship out to the middle of the ocean and scuttle it.
Let it sink to the bottom
To: noiseman
Yes, but it's simply unavoidable that high energy density batteries are going to contain chemicals that will be very reactive. If they mix together, a great deal of energy will be released in the form of heat, very rapidly. There's just no way around it.
The reason you can put out a gasoline fire is because you can deprive it of oxygen, by spraying foam or carbon dioxide on it.
A batter contains its own oxidizer, as a matter of definition, more or less. So it's going to burn, even if you bury it under sand.
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posted on
12/31/2023 8:09:56 PM PST
by
Steely Tom
([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
To: Steely Tom
Hey, it ain’t easy be-in green...
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posted on
12/31/2023 8:19:37 PM PST
by
Theophilus
(It's far easier to rig a jury than an electionhe )
To: Libloather
This is your liberal policy for 80k cars, literally on fire. Total NIMBY
To: Libloather
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posted on
12/31/2023 8:39:35 PM PST
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: Dacula
I was a Mary Ann guy, rather than Ginger.
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posted on
01/01/2024 7:52:57 AM PST
by
citizen
(Put all LBQTwhatever programming on a new subscription service: PERV-TThose look good)
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