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

Hotair ^ | 06/24/2024 | Beege Welborn

[Mr Ramsbotham]

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.

I had exactly the same experience. Little slivers of kerosene sliced off a big chunk that had been kept in kerosene, tossed into a fish tank, along with the same story about the bridge. It must be stock material with high school chemistry teachers.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

A good to way to take unreliable sources of energy and convert them into reliable ones. You could probably do sun and wind to biofuels.

[21twelve]

Heh. Our teacher told us some kid tried to take some home. It got hot in his hands from the moisture and he tossed it into the old porcelain drinking fountain in the hallway and it exploded.

I always thought that was a real story. Now though...

[21twelve]

There was a thread awhile ago about some building that stores energy in the form of gravity. Tall building with a huge mass inside. They lift it up using motors when power rates are low, and then let it slowing go down running generators when the rates are high.

[gundog]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=X4aVueFmOHo

[desertsolitaire]

An electric utility in Michigan has a pump storage facility that draws Lake Michigan water up into a giant artificial reservoir high above the lake level during low energy need times. It then let’s it flow back down through turbines that generate electricity during times of need. Nets over the intakes minimize the number of fish drawn up with the water. It can act as a giant reserve “battery” in times of greater power need and could help Jumpstart the grid after a failure of any kind. Grade school kids tour it around here and I recall how huge it looked in elementary K-4 school years.

[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

[Elsie]

and drills, saws, trimmers, blowers, mowers, routers, other stuff....

[Elsie]

 

What is Pump Storage Hydropower? - Pumped Hydro Australia

[Elsie]

Build them 100 miles away from any civilization.

That would either be too cold or too wet.

[Elsie]

I shudda read ahead...

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Interesting the Koreans heaped sand on the inferno.

You need a ready supply of sand and a way to get it on the fire. You can’t drive it up to the fire with a front-end loader.

Sounds like a next generation Red Adair is needed.

[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….

[rktman]

Guess we have to wait until they’re out then. And since they seem to burn so long and hot, they must be raising the temp leading to “hottest________ on record” .