Independent- Moss Landing fire: One of the world’s largest battery factories ablaze
The fire is located in the northern part of the sate some 300 miles (500 km) north of the wildfires in Los Angeles. The plant contains tens of thousands of lithium batteries, which can be extremely difficult to put out if they go up in flames.
Improving the climate, one lithium fire at a time.
looking for another subsidy or bailout
I don’t think they can extinguish the fire. Keep it from spreading is about all they can do.
Greentards will tell you these fires are rare. They are not, in fact there have been several significant ones in the last 12 months. I believe the Otay Mesa facility has burned at least twice.
https://timesofsandiego.com/crime/2024/09/06/lithium-battery-fire-continues-to-burn-as-county-considers-moratorium/
https://fox5sandiego.com/news/local-news/otay-mesa-battery-facility-fire-could-take-weeks-to-put-out-entirely/
And then there are the truck fires…
https://dot.ca.gov/news-releases/news-release-2024-027
Isn’t that the fourth fire at this plant?
Gavin Newscum should pass a law making fires illegal. That’ll stop them!
(sarc,)
Although don’t be surprised if California Dems pass just such a law, so they can say they did something.
When will Gavin be touring the battery burn site? Nevermind. He’d NEVER publicize his FAILures
There really is no point. We will be at each other with rocks and sticks before long.
The Luftwaffe would have bombed a high value target like this back in the day, but now there’s no need.
Adversaries can just send a guy thousands of miles on foot, he can get a job there, and done…
We are Number One! HEY!! We are Number One! HEY!!
I saw that story and the first thing that popped out at me was that the fire suppression system malfunctioned. Then, I thought about how the EV market is cratering. I smell hijinks…of the arson persuasion.
heh heh heh. whallll leastways theys warnt in cars at the time!!
It is apparently a battery facility that stores electricity from unreliables as opposed to a battery manufacturer. I was talking to a local fireman recently and asked what caused most local fires around town. The answer: Lithium batteries being charged.
“Vistra plants also suffered fires in 2021 and 2022 which were caused by a fire sprinkler system malfunction, causing some units to overheat, The Mercury News reported.”
My head isn’t processing that one. A fire sprinkler system overheated and caused a fire?
There’s a problem in every solution.
It’s not a battery factory. It’s a energy storage facility.
Burn baby, burn!
There went the CO2 budget
😜
Now … to be really serious and cynical … I am PAYING for this … every month in my PG&E bill … paying $0.57/kwH for this “clean, green, renewable” energy stored in these TOXIC batteries.
And I’m gonna pay for it again. And probably again. And again …
Yes, but think about all that free wind.
its not in the north of the state, its about half way up. Who writes this stuff?
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Someone in the southern quarter of the state?