Posted on 08/02/2021 1:01:30 PM PDT by rktman
A blaze at a massive Tesla battery site in Australia that started three days ago was brought under control on Monday, firefighters said.
Emergency services were first called to the Victoria Big Battery project — built by French renewable energy firm Neoen using Tesla batteries — on Friday morning.
A 13-tonne lithium battery inside a shipping container had caught fire at the site near Geelong, about an hour’s drive from Australia’s second city Melbourne, the Country Fire Service (CFA) said.
“There was one battery pack on fire to start with, but it did spread to a second pack that was very close to it,” incident controller Ian Beswicke said in a statement.
Images released by the CFA showed a cloud of smoke rising from one of the units at the site.
The fire service said the incident had been declared “under control” just after 3 pm (0500 GMT) on Monday.
“Firefighters have successfully completed the operation of opening all doors to the container of the battery, with no sign of fire,” the CFA said in an update.
Fire authorities said the cause of the blaze was unknown.
“A smaller number of firefighters and fire trucks from CFA will remain on scene for the next 24 hours as a precaution in case of reignition, the update added.
“The will continue taking thermal temperature readings two-hourly to monitor damaged units.”
The battery site — one of the largest in the world — is designed to store energy produced by renewables and send power to the grid.
Local residents were initially warned about the possibility of toxic smoke but the Environmental Protection Agency said monitoring had shown “good air quality” near homes.
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You can’t put them out; they have to burn out on their own.
Ping.
Get the S’Mores!
The adherents are waiting for it to rise from the dead.
These will be a huge NIMBY problem.
The cars are death traps.
Should be exciting at Daytona when they switch over. 😂😨🙌
Well, IF you stay inside AND wear 3 masks at all times... any air that gets through should be safe enough.
Maybe if we had more CO2, we coulda slowed the spread.
Yes...especially with a 13 tonne battery!
“they have to burn out on their own”
But battery operated cars are the path to the promised land brot
her!!
What a crock a chit.
“Should be exciting at Daytona”
It’ll be quiet that’s for sure....other than being able to hear the rednecks burpin’ and fartin’.
Just don’t park your EV in the garage. 😱🌋🚒🔥
I cannot wait until these battery pack are everywhere. I’ll be buying stocks of firefighting equipment manufactures.
So, anyone want to tell me what the environmental impact of all that toxic material burning for days and days, then the environmental impact of having to clean up and dispose of that mess, then the environment impacted by having to mine raw material and replace said giant battery?
Imagine a crash on the freeway and having multiple battery powered cars burning and waiting 3 days before they open the freeway then it happens again and again on roads everywhere.
Their “epa” said everything was ausome. Sure........
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