Tony Shin on the lithium-ion battery fire in Escondido Thursday. STORY: fox5sandiego.c... Follow FOX 5 San Diego: www.fox5sandie... / fox5sd / fox5sandiego / fox5sandiego / fox5sandiego
@@PC-zz9cy Yes, I have heard about them as well as oil tankers and Deep Water Horizon and other accidents and questionable events. Cutting corners, mis-management and let's see what happens when you expose Lithium Batteries storage units to high heat as we're currently having and oh, yes, poor maintenance. All are man made.
water doesn’t put them out. Neither does foam. Nice job to those that support the ridiculous ev’s that are actually more expensive and create more pollution than gas powered engine. Typical of government and lobbies making stupid decisions
The Fire Dept spokesman said they were advised not to use water on the burning container, just use water to cool the adjacent containers so they don't start a cascade chain of runaway lithium fires. The reason they can't use water has nothing to do with the lithium in the batteries, it is because the plastic cases the batteries are in in highly toxic to humans. If the smoke you can see doesn't kill you, the invisible toxic fumes emanating from the dry drought-stricken storm drains that give Escondidoans cancer.
You don't get it. When anything "bad" happens from "green" energy, all rational thought, questions, laws of nature and physics, are ALL SUSPENDED. There are NO PROBLEMS WITH GREEN ENERGY. Just eat your Soylent Green and stop asking questions.
2:05 So I am not the so called expert, but shouldn't they put each one of the shipping containers and tracks, and if one catches fire they can pull it away from the others. Do you really think the best and brightest built these battery storage lots?
What happens if there is no water source at a Battery Energy Storage System fire to cool adjoining units? How does CLEAN POWER ALLIANCE have the 642-acre High Desert Solar-plus-Storage power plant built in an area already prone to wildfire when it's been determined to be a "potential trigger for wildfire" without having the means to extinguish the wildfire it will trigger? No EIR required! High winds, high temperatures, low humidity, and surrounded by a continuous fuel bed of invasive grasses. FOLLOW THE MONEY!
The problem with lithium batteries is that they degrade and get dendrites that's why the phones were blowing up from Samsung. This is going to be more and more and more and more. Lithium is very reactive
Actually, this battery system is supplied by a local system provider called AES. The system was deployed in 2017 by that time most of the energy storage batteries were using LG Ternary lithium batteries which were very easy to catch fire. Nowadays most of the Chinese battery cell are LFP which is much more safe than Ternary lithium battery. And LFP battery is cheaper. The Tesla mega pack recently shifted about half of their supply to Chinese LFP battery supplier CATL. But the tesla mega pack still use some Korean Ternary lithium battery cells.
Good info, @Tek_Bro! Some details: LFP, AKA LiFePO4 (lithium iron phosphate) are safer (less prone to ignite) than Li-ion, but have lower energy density. So LFP will have lower capacity (Wh, or Watt-hours) for same package size, or larger package (or more cells) for same capacity compared to Li-ion. The energy density difference is in the range of 10 to 35%, depending on some variables. The safety and energy density trade-off means the choice will depend on priorities and requirements of the application. LFP generally has a price advantage for a given capacity.
