Big Badda Boom: South Korea - Lithium Battery Factory Explodes and Burns

Hotair ^ | 06/24/2024 | Beege Welborn

[Paladin2]

Chemistry is downstream from Physics.

It’s still The Law [forget the meritless Garland].

Much like Sodium, Lithium [in larger quantities] is nothing to fool with on a personal level.

[dragnet2]

Nice headline. Big boom boom

[BradyLS]

Ride ze bus. Own nuttink. Eat ze bugs. Be hoppy. 🙄

[VTenigma]

Looks hot.

[No name given]

Unless I’m mistaken, lithium is what they make electric ⚡️ car 🚗 batteries 🔋 out of.

[montag813]

There's also discussion that the worker registry was destroyed in the inferno so there's no way at the moment to get an accurate count of who and how many are missing, compounded by the fact the majority of the employees in the building when this blew are foreigners.

Convenient for company lawyers when the lawsuits are filed.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Just wait until PG&E's "Elkhorn Battery Plant" goes up and tens of millions of gallons of toxic water flow into the gorgeous Elkhorn Slough killing all the sea lions, otters, and fowl.

Click for satellite image in Google Maps. All those rectangles around the dropped pin are the battery modules.

182.5 MW Tesla Megapack battery energy storage system (BESS) – known as the Elkhorn Battery – located at its Moss Landing electric substation in Monterey County. After final testing, the BESS was fully energized and certified for market participation by the California Independent System Operator on April 7, 2022.

BESS has the capacity to store and dispatch up to 730 megawatt hours of energy to the grid at a maximum rate of 182.5 MW for up to four hours during periods of high demand.

Elkhorn Battery Plant Satellite View

[Celtic Conservative]

And burns, and burns, and burns...

CC

[rktman]

Ding bang pow! Wonder how long til it gets put out.

[Celtic Conservative]

Yes, and they burn rather spectacularly.

CC

[gundog]

I remember the jar of kerosene in chemistry, that held all of the large chunks of sodium. The teacher would carve off a little sliver, drop it in water, and Pow! He told us someone had dropped a good sized chunk off a bridge in ( I believe) Chicago, once, and blew out a bunch of windows.

[Celtic Conservative]

Water tank energy storage would be far safer. During hours of off-peak energy is used to to fill a water tank to capacity. During peak hours the water is allowed to flow to a second, lower tank through a hydroelectric generator. During off peak the water is pumped back up and the cycle repeats.

Or we could build a crap-ton of nuclear plants.

CC

[Fresh Wind]

Fire not the only danger with lithium-ion batteries

"The toxicity of gases given off from any given lithium-ion battery differ from that of a typical fire and can themselves vary but all remain either poisonous or combustible, or both. They can feature high percentages of hydrogen, and compounds of hydrogen, including hydrogen fluoride, hydrogen chloride and hydrogen cyanide, as well as carbon monoxide, sulphur dioxide and methane among other dangerous chemicals."

[roving]

Build them 100 miles away from any civilization.

[rxh4n1]

“Ding bang pow! Wonder how long til it gets put out.”

We have records for the longest tire fire and the longest coal seam fire. Someday we’ll have records for the longest lithium battery fire.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

It’s called “pumped hydro” and has been around forever. The “tanks” are upper and lower reservoirs. Pump water uphill at night when power rates are low and there is unused capacity…flow the water downhill through generators the next day from noon to 8 pm.

Simple and effective “battery.” Hard to find sites.

Castaic Lake pumped storage north of Los Angeles. Three new reservoirs are proposed for the California coast to store offshore wind turbine energy.

[Celtic Conservative]

Thanks for the correct terminology. I’ve heard of it only recently.

CC

[know.your.why]

Lithium battery RTE (Runaway Thermal Event). Yeah...its as scary as it sounds. Hot enough to melt glass and theres no putting it out.

[Repeal The 17th]

Georgia Power does that here.
Upper lake is Lake Oconee.
Lower lake is Lake Sinclair.

Pump water upstream during low usage hours.
Generate power coming back down during high usage hours.