Posted on 08/19/2024 11:39:50 AM PDT by blueplum
A Tesla big rig that caught fire has both directions of California's Interstate 80 closed in the Sierra Nevada on Monday morning.
Cal Fire crews confirmed that they responded to the scene for an electric big rig fire around 3 a.m. near Emigrant Gap. California Highway Patrol later confirmed they are dealing with a hazardous materials situation....
First responders say that the batteries of the electric big rig were still burning more than four hours later....
"The battery itself, you can't just spray water on it to put it out. It takes either some sort of dry chemical or very huge amount of water, I've heard as much as 40,000 gallons,"....
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“the batteries of the electric big rig were still burning more than four hours later.”
And will still be burning more than four days later.
Maybe 40 days later.
Have FDs built dunk-tanks big enough for a semi tractor?
The sheer stupidity of trying to convert long-haul semi trucks to batteries astounds me. Almost as much as trying to power the USA with windmills and solar cells.
There are LOTS and LOTS of big pine trees along I-80 in that area. Hope that truck doesn’t start a forest fire.
Mountain climbing was not the cause. The driver went off the road and crashed into trees. Big rigs on diesel do it all the time and also burn. Driver presumably at fault.
How green!
forward!
Why can't the forestry service dump fire retardant on it, same as with other forest fires? Seems to me that a dump of fire retardant would smother the fire.
I’m beginning to wonder if ginormous lithium batteries on the roadway might not be the greatest idea ever.
Maybe a large container to put over fires.
Smother it. Prob not.
Progress is great until they ain’t.
THINK AHEAD, DFs.
Windmills, solar panels, film, computer disc. computers...on and on.
If you build it, make sure you can kill it.
KCRA channel 3 Sacramento reports: “ crews were using “thousands and thousands” of gallons of water on the wreckage, which still measured about 1,000 degrees according to CHP’s temperature guns.”
(I had no idea chippers had temperature guns)
engineer hubby suggests airlifting tons and tons of sand to smother the fire instead of using water?
Does this lose all of your Virtue points?
Like, oh say, AI?
Hmmmmm! IIRC, they went through 9 million gallons + at some battery fire in socal recently. Anyone? Bueller?
Oh crap! Left the most dangerous thing out.
What about robots? They will control us, or we will
be their slaves.
I am thinking that there is ample proof that great minds are not involved in this.
I was wondering, per an earlier Francis Menton article, why ginormous lithium batteries were being used for stationary location energy storage. It seems to me that solar farm energy storage could use much more massive and maintainable batteries. These could use heavy metal compounds and liquids. Lithium should be reserved for mobile use, and even it is massively heavy, at least that is my thought.
in terms of of power application I would say that they are.
When this happens in a downtown major city evacuations will ensue.
Then the cause was he stopped climbing the mountain.
Once a lithium battery is shorted out, it’s going to stay shorted out until there is no battery left. You can’t just put out a lithium battery fire. It’s an electrical fire and the only way to put it out is to shut off the electricity. It just has to burn itself out. No amount of fire retardant is going to have any effect. Water will only keep the heat down until it burns out.
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