Evacuation orders issued for Moss Landing Battery Plant fire; residents asked to close all entry points

KSBW ^ | January 16, 2025 | Ricardo Tovar

[artichokegrower]

MOSS LANDING, Calif. — A fire has been confirmed at the Vistra Power Plant in Moss Landing on Thursday which is forcing evacuations and closing roads in the area.

[artichokegrower]

More of Gavin Newsom and Joe Biden’s clean green energy

[CottonBall]

Hubby knows the Env Manager there, she said the fire Crews can’t do anything. They’re just watching it burn. California, in their brilliant decision making abilities, decided to store the power plant’s energy in batteries made by Tesla. Everybody else puts it on the grid. This isn’t the first time there’s been a fire there. Amazing that California doesn’t learn. /s

[ProtectOurFreedom]

LOL>>>Go Green, Baby!!

Forests, grasslands, chaparral, thousands of homes, mansions...it’s all burning up in California.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

The pollution from the utility battery fires, forest fires, scrub brush fires, Tesla car fired, long-haul EV truck fires, house fires, grassland fires and more is a million times higher than all of California’s automobiles operating for 100 years.

Yes, brilliant decision makers. These idiots think they can rebuild our entire energy infrastructure in a few short years. It took 150 years to construct our energy systems and decades of engineering refinement and optimization. But these unicorn fart breathers think they are so smart they can do it overnight.

[steve86]

Oh, they’re just about to start building a huge battery-grid storage facility near me, in WA. But not THAT NEAR to me.

[stars & stripes forever]

Looks like an attempt to hobble President Trump’s term of office

[Paul R.]

More video. The reporter on scene was pretty freaked out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ehDI0Zj8IU

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Otay Mesa battery plant fire in May 2024...

A nearly two-week-long fire at a battery energy storage facility in California highlighted the risks associated with emerging battery storage technologies that are central to the clean energy transition.

Fire crews took 24 hours to “get a handle on” the flare that erupted May 15 at the 250-megawatt Gateway Energy Storage Facility in Otay Mesa near San Diego. Two days later it reignited—and then smouldered for more than a week. Surrounding businesses were evacuated and a 600-foot safety barrier was established to keep civilians away from possibly dangerous levels of hydrogen near the facility.

“The fire is what we call ‘thermal runaway’—(meaning) the lithium-ion batteries are kind of ignited in their burning, so what we are doing right now is trying to contain the toxic fumes and the smoke, and the fire obviously,” said Cal Fire Battalion Chief Patrick Walker, during the response to the second fire. “But it’s one of those processes that could be long-duration.”

The facility’s lithium-ion batteries are believed to be the source of the fire. They are prone to thermal runaway, a chain reaction that results in the battery producing heat more rapidly than it can dissipate. Internal battery temperatures can spike to around 752°F in milliseconds, and the intense heat driving the fires make them extremely difficult to put out.

It's kind of ironic that Musk's engineers can master the incredible energy release in his rockets, but can't contain it in Li-Ion batteries.

The "clean energy transition" is a chimera, a ridiculous dream, an infantile obsession driven by the global warming scam. It's driven by hundreds of thousands of people pursuing "green" get rich quick schemes. Germany and now all of western Europe are rapidly de-industrializing pursuing this idiocy.

[jmacusa]

Indeed. If this is true , it'll make the Reichstag Fire look like weenie roast.

[KamperKen]

My best friend lives across the bay from Moss Landing and we’ve been wondering this past year when it was going to catch fire. The track record for these lithium battery facilities is very bad and it seems it’s a 100 per cent certainty they will ignite, it’s just a matter of when.

[aquila48]

Maybe that explains the haze we saw when my wife went for a walk in a park outside Morgan Hill which is inland from Moss Landing, with the wind blowing from the coast.

[jonrick46]

The amount of CO2 emitted from these California fires must be astronomical.

[sasquatch]

I used to work in ML across the hwy from ‘Mighty Moss’ and live in the hills above Santa Cruz. Ordinarily there is a slight glow from the lights in town. There is now a glow further east. There is a ridge between here and there so I cannot see it directly. A lot of people live aboard in the harbor. They used to get a monthly payment from the power plant due to the crap that rained down when it blew down hardware I’ll bet they wish they still had that problem.
I would not like to be a firefighter in North County right now.

[sasquatch]

This is not a fire where CO2 is a concern.
This one is bad.

[sasquatch]

ML’s on fire again.

[sasquatch]

FYI

[metmom]

The pollution from the utility battery fires, forest fires, scrub brush fires, Tesla car fired, long-haul EV truck fires, house fires, grassland fires and more is a million times higher than all of California’s automobiles operating for 100 years.

Thanks, greenies.

Great job you did *protecting* the environment.

Thank God sanity is returning to at least some of our government Monday. May it be contagious.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

No worries. Those toxic fumes are green.

[Drago]

Again, again and again:

https://www.ksbw.com/article/second-battery-malfunction-in-less-than-6-months-reported-at-moss-landing-power-plant/39083568

https://www.ksbw.com/article/moss-landing-power-plant-battery-fire/37501119

(2021, 2022, 2025,...)

[MustKnowHistory]

“ The pollution from the utility battery fires, forest fires, scrub brush fires, Tesla car fired, long-haul EV truck fires, house fires, grassland fires and more is a million times higher than all of California’s automobiles operating for 100 years.”

This point should be made over and over again.

Any gains they have made to mitigate environmental concerns have been dwarfed by recent disasters caused by their environmental activism.