A lithium fire forced a sailing couple to abandon ship and ultimately led to their deaths. What does this tragedy teach us about the dangers of lithium batteries and the need for stepped up emergency planning?
Once they get going, lithium fires can be almost impossible to put out.
Cybersecurity and national security experts have explored how EV batteries and the connected technology of electric vehicles could be weaponized to cause disruption or mass casualties in a terrorist attack or actions by a disgruntled employee.
A massive explosion at the world’s largest lithium-ion battery storage plant in Monterey County, California, ignited an inferno that burned for days.
Making wind and solar work at all requires a fantastic amount of battery backup, far more than is possible.
The existing battery safety standards are grossly incomplete for the huge grid grid scale battery complexes being recklessly built in large numbers.
Massachusetts just passed a law requiring the big utilities to buy a whopping 1,500 MW of batteries by this July.
BY JONATHAN LESSER: Home batteries are yet another example of electricity “magical thinking.”
Alternative energy is exploding─literally.
New fuels and new engines are in the pipeline.
Construction of huge battery arrays with no concern for potentially catastrophic fires is out of control.
“Net Zero” accurately describes the net benefits of an inane energy transition to a battery of blackouts that will paralyze transportation, gridlock lives and workplaces, and produce mountains of toxic waste.
BY IDDO WERNICK: There are easier ways for humanity to avoid the problems that batteries are intended to solve.
Just for electricity from EV batteries, and the electricity occasionally generated from wind turbines and solar panels, the World Bank estimates that more than three billion tons of metals and minerals could be required over the next three decades.
When a world leader in grid scale batteries says they are not the way to net zero electric power it is a big thing.