... 3000-megawatt Moss Landing energy storage ...
"megawatt" is not a quantity of energy.
Also, are those battery fires more frequent // important than petrol ones ?
this post was submitted on 17 Jan 2025
65 points (68.2% liked)
Technology
60606 readers
3647 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related content.
- Be excellent to each another!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
Approved Bots
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
No. And the petrol fires are many and ongoing in everyone's cars. Also large petrol fires are not always reported in the US. I can think of one specific instance that tho' a major fire, producing a wall of smoke, yet I could only find one news report of it's existence.
Also, are those battery fires more frequent // important than petrol ones ?
Petrol fires use oxygen from the air. They can be extinguished by removing the oxygen: covering it in firefighting foam, or displacing it with CO2, for example.
Batteries contain both their fuel and their oxidizer together in one case. You can't remove the oxygen. So long as they are hot enough, they keep burning, even if they are underwater. The only way to extinguish them is to remove the heat. Which is practically impossible.
Good point.
And so, i would expect large accidents in tunnels in next decades that will prompt laws & regulation to restrict electric vehicles from (access to) tunnels ...
load more comments
(11 replies)
Enlighten us with better approach. Also there are battery types that are less flammable.
Edit: is -> us
load more comments
(1 replies)
Here's another article from AP: https://www.npr.org/2025/01/17/g-s1-43268/fire-battery-storage-plant-california-moss-landing