[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.

[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.

[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.

[blitz128]

Am I the only one who saw that the plant appeared to be manned by Chinese nationals, in South Korea?

What could possibly go wrong

[BobL]

Damn, the Russians don’t even need to bomb our power facilities, all they need to do instead is simply wait.

[Elsie]

Mesa?

Wooken Pa Nub

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Great FReeping, S & F! WOW!

[Red Badger]

Well, all that thick black smoke should help with cooling da Erf!..................

[Bernard]

There were tens of thousands of little potential firebombs in the building with who knows how many left, now damaged and equally as dangerous?

Is that just the author getting carried away, or do ALL of the batteries in the warehouse need to be isolated and trashed, just because they were in the building?

[dfwgator]

[Lockbox]

Firemen have a great fear and respect of lithium….