I had to chuckle when I saw those Teslas on fire on Fox. What irks me is why they don't they realize that the current elements that make up the battery packs are dangerous. I have been following Robert Murray-Smith on YouTube for years and have purchased his carbon-based Working Ink which is an excellent conductor of electricity. I haven't had the time or the money at the moment to build some batteries myself. But I will try to do it soon.

My sister in FL told me days ago that fire and police departments are warning people to park their electric cars at the curb, away from structures. I wonder how many got the message. Lib media is silent.

Wish I could give you 2++ fr that one! LMAO!

all systems seem to be oscillatory in operation. As some things change, others change in response, and in the end, an equilibrium seems to be reached, with oscillations reaching peaks and valleys. one year temps rise, the next they fall mostly.

Tons of EV batteries.... could be one large EV.

Dino likes.

Huh. Okay then.

I knew about the raw metals effect. As you go down the periodic table the alkali metals grow increasingly reactive in water. Cesium's effects are instantaneous. ;) https://youtu.be/5Vd5pqjbWJU

But an alkali metal fire, such as lithium, will take oxygen from the CO2.

Here is a reference:
https://ehs.stanford.edu/reference/in...
What I called Class 4 they (more correctly) call Class D.

They explicitly say, "ABC and CO2 fire extinguishers must not be used to extinguish alkali metal fires."

Our high-school chemistry teacher told us that potassium would explode if put into water. Some of us (no, not me) wanted to get some potassium for the drinking fountain just outside her classroom.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeKLM...

A video of the little small cell battery in e-cigarettes exploding:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeKLM...

You have to use chemical foam to take out an electrical fire in an unenclosed space. In an enclosed space you can flood the room with CO2 or an inert gas.

BTW, Smooth move Democrats. The cost of killing the oil and gas industry is coming back to bite their arse. Most of Europe, China and many other countries are going back to coal fired generation for their needs because they can't afford oil or Nat. gas.

I must wear out one of my own True Isms. "One big fart from a volcano can turn all those green climate change trillions into wasted ashes".

My lib brother used to be fond of saying "not necessarily." Maybe he still is. We've hardly spoken in years.
That's kinda easy when he lives in Delaware and I live in Sweet Home Alabama.

Hahaha, BOOM!

The big problem that no one seems to address is the correct way to extinguish a burning metal (class 4) fire. If you pour on water, the fire will take oxygen from it, leaving a hydrogen fire above the metal fire. There are special techniques for Class 4 fires, and I suspect that many fire departments are not equipped or trained for them.

Tremendous amounts of water all at once can possibly cool the fire down, but the news reports I've seen suggest that "let it burn out" is the most common approach. Lithium, sodium and potassium all make good burning-metal fires.

Me dino has likely worn out the following paired statements here but I feel compelled to write them again~~
There has always been climate change. Just ask the dinosaurs and the woolly mammoths.
Now me dino has thought up something a little different~~
The only constant is change. That's particularly true when applied to climate change.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descrip...

I caught my cell phone just as it began a meltdown. Tossed it out side and watched it smoke the moment I smelled it burning. A buddies garage burnt down when his kids hoverboard blew out. Now I charge my phone on the top of a fire brick. Insurance is a wonderful thing but it won't replace a fraction of what you lose if your house burns to the ground.

Our leftist government is leading us into a disaster with this climate change stuff. If the sea is going to rise, it wont be the first time, nor the last. best just maybe move away from the coast a bit...

Where there's smoke in a downpour there's still a fire.

especially conductive salt water from the ocean.

That's been the major problem with EVs since they were developed, the batteries can become unstable resulting in a fire destroying a very expensive battery and probably the car with it. All batteries are subject to the same problem no matter the size, cel-phones have burst into flames, shipments have started fires causing planes to crash. This is another dangerous mandate, remember light bulbs containing mercury that needed a hazmat team to clean up if broken!

How about the tesla powerwall. Lots of power stored in those

Imagine if everyone had an EV........

People are called "racist" these days for asking such common sense questons.