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Lithium battery explodes, injuring 20
Arutz Sheva ^ | 10/11/22

Posted on 11/10/2022 12:20:53 PM PST by Eleutheria5

Twenty people were evacuated Wednesday night from Hanegev Street in the northern city of Haifa, after a fire broke out in the courtyard of a residential building, Behadrey Haredim reported.

The initial report claimed that the fire was in the building itself, but upon firefighters' arrival at the scene, it became clear that the blaze was in the courtyard, and not in an apartment.

Magen David Adom (MDA) paramedics provided medical care to 20 victims. Eighteen of the victims had suffered mild injuries, while the other two were moderately injured, all of them from smoke inhalation.

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A fire investigator who arrived at the scene believes that the blaze was sparked by an electric bicycle's lithium battery, Behadrey Haredim noted.

Israel's Fire and Rescue Services said, "Recently, we have seen many especially serious instances of fires which break out due to the litihium batteries of electric vehicles."

"Lithium batteries are dangerous. Please use only the original batteries, try to store them outside your home, and while charging, do not leave them unsupervised. Protect your lives."

(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: batteries; batteryexplosion; batteryfire; chat; ev; explosion; haifa; lithium; lithiumbatteries; localnews
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To: Republican Wildcat

“How much carbon and other greenhouse gases does an exploding / burning lithium battery release into the atmosphere?”

Depends on what else it sets on fire.


21 posted on 11/10/2022 1:37:38 PM PST by Neverlift (When someone says "you just can't make this stuff up" odds are good, somebody did.)
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To: Eleutheria5

Battery fire caused a house fire in Karmiel a week and a half ago.

I’m not sure “start up nation” was intended to mean tech fires.


22 posted on 11/10/2022 2:09:23 PM PST by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: fretzer

“it’s all about control.”

Absolutely!

The DemocRATS love the Chicoms and the old Soviet Union. Our history books will not have this, but in the USSR, in order to travel outside of your small area (county) one needed one’s papers. An internal passport system. The dirty big secret is that they did not issue papers to over 70% of the population. If you did have your papers, and did or thought something outside of the correct thinking, you could easily have your papers canceled, and lose your ability to travel. I can just see them implementing an individual Carbon Footprint allowance, and stopping your ability to charge your mandatory EV if you travel too much, too far.


23 posted on 11/10/2022 2:31:38 PM PST by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try. )
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To: Pollard
"and this is what they want the masses to use for transportation."

2 burned alive in ICE car fire


24 posted on 11/10/2022 2:52:08 PM PST by TexasGator (!!!)
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To: Ronaldus Magnus III

>...and stopping your ability to charge your mandatory EV if you travel too much, too far.

You won’t have your mandatory EV because there aren’t enough materials on the planet to build the infrastructure needed to support a hydrogen economy. He’s targeting 2050 as the date of 100% conversion from fossil fuels to “renewables”. Based on his estimates, there’s only 2% of the required lithium present in known lithium deposits and at the 2019 mining rates, it would require nearly 10,000 years to mine the required amount of lithium. Watch the vid. The people pushing EVs haven’t done their homework and still believe in unicorn farts.


25 posted on 11/10/2022 3:34:38 PM PST by fretzer
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To: fretzer

What? Until you catch a unicorn and force feed it beans, you can’t tell for sure that it won’t work!


26 posted on 11/10/2022 3:56:22 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (Free country? Good morning, Rip. )
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To: Eleutheria5

>beans

There’s a chili thread around here somewhere...


27 posted on 11/10/2022 4:08:07 PM PST by fretzer
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To: Eleutheria5

V8 engines used to do that all the time. Right?


28 posted on 11/10/2022 4:34:18 PM PST by GingisK
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To: Republican Wildcat

Far more gas cars burn compared to EVs simply because of the shear numbers. But gas car fires are far easier to extinguish with just one truck of water.


29 posted on 11/10/2022 6:49:21 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Inside every leftist is a blood-thirsty fascist yearning to be free of current societal constraints.)
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To: Greg123456
Wait till everyone is required to drive an electric vehicle. One battery fire and it will spread to the other cars like dominoes, eventually burning whole city blocks.

Correct. Just imagine what will happen when one starts in one of the multi story casino garages in Vegas. It will burn it down as it spreads to cars powered by gas or batteries. It will happen eventually.

30 posted on 11/10/2022 8:00:33 PM PST by cpdiii (cane cutter-deckhand-roughneck-oil field trash- drilling fluid tech-geologist-pilot- pharmacist)
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To: Eleutheria5

#11 Horses are intelligent and often friendly, especially if you treat them right. They produce fertilizer for the garden. And they never, ever explode.

I saw an episode of Bonanza and a horse got upset (exploded) at Joe Cartwright and broke his arm.


31 posted on 11/10/2022 11:42:22 PM PST by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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To: Boogieman

In Florida we have the additional problem of salt water and lithium batteries mixing and causing fires.


32 posted on 11/10/2022 11:55:05 PM PST by GOPJ ( Networks need camera crews in black communities too. Watch turnout and comments. Harlem? Chicago? )
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To: minnesota_bound

Enh. That was an actor horse. He was just pretending to break Little Joe’s arm, and Little Joe was just pretending to get his arm broke. And who did the producer and director trust to pretend to break Little Joe’s 100,000 dollar arm? A horse, of course. And the horse just pretend got mad, which is mere figurative exploding, he didn’t literally “explode” or Bonanza would have been over, since one of the main characters and a trained horse would have been dead. Highway to Heaven would never have happened, and he would have been a real angel, if people become angels when they die. Kabbalistic lore says that they don’t, except for Elijah, whose body was carried up to Heaven because it was so refined that it was elevated above physicality and a chariot came fo’ to carry him home.

So stop getting those dangerous lithium batteries, and dammit, get a horse. No “greenhouse gases,” except every once in a while. And an intelligent friend who will take you through rush hour traffic quicker. Little Joe would approve.


33 posted on 11/11/2022 3:37:41 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (Free country? Good morning, Rip. )
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To: fretzer
By educated estimates, that will never happen. There’s not enough lithium (or copper for that matter) on the planet.

"I'm sorry, citizen, because of lithium shortages due to the war in Eastasia, your name will be put on a waiting list for an electric vehicle. Allocations will be based on your social credit score. We will notify you when one becomes available, but until then you may walk or ride a bicycle as long as your papers are in order."

34 posted on 11/11/2022 3:55:39 AM PST by Fresh Wind (Fox News is CNN-Lite.)
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To: Fresh Wind

Counterrevolutionaries need not apply.


35 posted on 11/11/2022 4:18:44 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (Free country? Good morning, Rip. )
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To: Eleutheria5

Saving, to reread later.


36 posted on 11/11/2022 6:42:45 AM PST by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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