I live in Phoenix, and there are a LOT of EVs on the roads here and in the surrounding satellite cities. Even the local evening news stations will never dare to mention "spontaneous combustion " as the cause of the once or twice weekly EV fires that tend to take place on the freeways or major arterial surface streets. They always end the coverage with: "The cause of the fire is under investigation" as though a new Tesla would burst into flames for any other reason!
It's amazing how tightly contained the narratives around ANY EV fire, or lithium-ion battery caused conflagration are.
Our global, national, and local media are so wed to the success of "electric everything" that they are willing to appear foolish, or neglectful, or to be openly lying when the hazards of these technologies are blindingly evident.
Firefighters have a huge problem with lithium battery fires is that they just can’t hose them down with water and expect to stop them. H2O chemically reacts with lithium to form flammable hydrogen gas and lithium hydroxide in what we chemists call an oxidation-reduction reaction.
I am always shocked that urban firefighting departments will pour 20,000 to 30,000 gallons of water on an EV fire and then complain about how the fire "restarts" itself hours later. Apparently they don't understand that EV batteries don't "burn" the way plastics or wood does. They SHORT. And they would NEVER pour water on a burning electrical panel, but try it on EVs all the time, with the same results.
A lithium-ion battery "fire" (short, actually) needs to be smothered by something, like sand or some sort of non-flammable foam. At least that way the combustible materials around the battery can't ignite from the heat generated by the "fire " because those materials need oxygen to combust.
I doubt that the livestock fires and battery fires have similar causes. My guess the livestock fires are madman made and the battery fires spontaneous due to the volitivity of the contents
Don’t mock it .. perhaps all the black smoke from burning lithium battery factories will help block the heat from the sun and help cool the planet (remember the ‘global dimming’ stories from a couple of decades ago).
I live in Phoenix, and there are a LOT of EVs on the roads here and in the surrounding satellite cities. Even the local evening news stations will never dare to mention "spontaneous combustion " as the cause of the once or twice weekly EV fires that tend to take place on the freeways or major arterial surface streets. They always end the coverage with: "The cause of the fire is under investigation" as though a new Tesla would burst into flames for any other reason!
It's amazing how tightly contained the narratives around ANY EV fire, or lithium-ion battery caused conflagration are.
Our global, national, and local media are so wed to the success of "electric everything" that they are willing to appear foolish, or neglectful, or to be openly lying when the hazards of these technologies are blindingly evident.
Rotsa Ruck putting out a 🔥
Firefighters have a huge problem with lithium battery fires is that they just can’t hose them down with water and expect to stop them. H2O chemically reacts with lithium to form flammable hydrogen gas and lithium hydroxide in what we chemists call an oxidation-reduction reaction.
I am always shocked that urban firefighting departments will pour 20,000 to 30,000 gallons of water on an EV fire and then complain about how the fire "restarts" itself hours later. Apparently they don't understand that EV batteries don't "burn" the way plastics or wood does. They SHORT. And they would NEVER pour water on a burning electrical panel, but try it on EVs all the time, with the same results.
A lithium-ion battery "fire" (short, actually) needs to be smothered by something, like sand or some sort of non-flammable foam. At least that way the combustible materials around the battery can't ignite from the heat generated by the "fire " because those materials need oxygen to combust.
Truth matters. Thank you!
I doubt that the livestock fires and battery fires have similar causes. My guess the livestock fires are madman made and the battery fires spontaneous due to the volitivity of the contents
Don’t mock it .. perhaps all the black smoke from burning lithium battery factories will help block the heat from the sun and help cool the planet (remember the ‘global dimming’ stories from a couple of decades ago).