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"Tons" Of EV Batteries Corrode, Explode And Burn In Ian's Wake

Posted by allosaur 2 years, 10 months ago to News

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Gulcher Suzanne43 tipped off me dino about this news item we're somehow not hearing much about.
Gee whiz, the stoy is on Fox News, though.

SOURCE URL: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/electric-vehicles-exploding-water-damage-hurricane-ian-top-florida-official-warns

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Posted by Radio_Randy 2 years, 10 months ago

Same thing happens to liberals when exposed to reason...

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  Posted by splumb 2 years, 10 months ago
  
  Hahaha, BOOM!
  
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    Posted by allosaur 2 years, 10 months ago
    
    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.
    
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  Posted by katrinam41 2 years, 10 months ago
  
  Wish I could give you 2++ fr that one! LMAO!
  
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Posted by Suzanne43 2 years, 10 months ago

This story might be too hot to touch for the Liberal press.

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  Posted by allosaur 2 years, 10 months ago
  
  China and Deep State investors would surely disapprove.
  
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Posted by 25n56il4 2 years, 10 months ago

Do you suppose God did this to show how stupid an idea all EV's are? He put petroleum which restocks itself constantly on this earth for some purpose. Unless the aliens who created us did that. In any case, electricity and water don't get along well with one another. Even a small child may know that one.

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  Posted by term2 2 years, 10 months ago
  
  especially conductive salt water from the ocean.
  
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  Posted by allosaur 2 years, 10 months ago
  
  If hurricanes didn't kill people and destroy other stuff, I'd be rooting for a hurricane epidemic.
  
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Posted by Joseph23006 2 years, 10 months ago

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!

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  Posted by GaryL 2 years, 10 months ago
  
  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.
  
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    Posted by lrshultis 2 years, 10 months ago
    
    A video of the little small cell battery in e-cigarettes exploding:
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeKLM...
    
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Posted by jbrenner 2 years, 10 months ago

We have seen a lot of this story about the EVs in southwest Florida here on my (other) side of Florida.

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  Posted by allosaur 2 years, 10 months ago
  
  Me dino thinks it impossible to keep that story out the local news in Florida.
  I'm also thinking you may be referring to the Florida Panhandle that's virtually an extension of south Alabama.
  I spent most of my first 25 of 75 years in both areas.
  
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    Posted by jbrenner 2 years, 10 months ago
    
    No, I'm thinking of all the flooded people in Port Charlotte, Fort Myers, etc.
    
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      Posted by allosaur 2 years, 10 months ago
      
      Oops, me dino had a brain malfunction. Southwest is a lot different from northwest.
      That's scary when my age ain't all that far behind Biden's.
      Uh, wait, where am I? What am I doing here?
      Aw, c'mon, man! I'm only having a holocaust, Jack!
      Now I yearn for some mushrooms.
      
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        Posted by jbrenner 2 years, 10 months ago
        
        Enjoy the Redneck Riviera, Allosaur. It's a wonderful place!
        
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        Posted by allosaur 2 years, 10 months ago
        
        Used to take my kids down there.
        Now my kids take their kids.
        
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Posted by GaryL 2 years, 10 months ago

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.

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Posted by term2 2 years, 10 months ago

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

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  Posted by allosaur 2 years, 10 months ago
  
  Where there's smoke in a downpour there's still a fire.
  
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    Posted by term2 2 years, 10 months ago
    
    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...
    
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      Posted by allosaur 2 years, 10 months ago
      
      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...
      
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        Posted by GaryL 2 years, 10 months ago
        
        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".
        
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        Posted by allosaur 2 years, 10 months ago
        
        Dino likes.
        
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        Posted by term2 2 years, 10 months ago
        
        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.
        
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Posted by GaryL 2 years, 10 months ago

Only one question and it is not just about EVs.
Are lithium Ion batteries safe in anything?

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  Posted by Snezzy 2 years, 10 months ago
  
  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.
  
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    Posted by blarman 2 years, 10 months ago
    
    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.
    
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      Posted by Snezzy 2 years, 10 months ago
      
      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.
      
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        Posted by blarman 2 years, 10 months ago
        
        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
        
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  Posted by term2 2 years, 10 months ago
  
  How about the tesla powerwall. Lots of power stored in those
  
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  Posted by allosaur 2 years, 10 months ago
  
  People are called "racist" these days for asking such common sense questons.
  
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  Posted by lrshultis 2 years, 10 months ago
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeKLM...
  
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Posted by Owlsrayne 2 years, 10 months ago

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.

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Posted by katrinam41 2 years, 10 months ago

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.

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Posted by mikeofallon 2 years, 10 months ago

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

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