I sat down at the Massachusetts Municipal Association convention in Friday morning. Nice town administrator sat at the table with me. I began to make polite chit-chat and asked how his town was doing. He said great until this week. His town had 4 EV buses go up in flames and their chargers! And then he had to stand at the ribbon cutting for the "EV Alley" which was one of the main features of the MMA Conference. They highlighted a school bus, fire engine, trucks, cars, etc., for municipal use, all of which are EVs. Talk about bad timing and mud on your face. https://www.torquenews.com/1083/millions-dollars-wasted-brand-new-electric-school-buses-go-smoke-while-charging
Reminds me of when I worked on battery van development at GM back in the 80’s. One of the batteries we worked with were nickel iron cells. This is the battery first used in Edison electric vehicles. The problem with this chemistry is that it continually emits hydrogen. Without thorough ventilation this gas forms an explosive mixture with air. We worked with a battery comprised of about 100 cells. While on test at the proving grounds, one battery caught fire. I was the battery expert so they called me at 9 pm. When asked what the firemen should do, I told them to push the vehicle into the lake. They didn’t like that answer so I went there and donned gloves, apron and face shield to disconnect the parallel strings of cells from each other to prevent backfeed into a short. Fortunately while we worked on that nothing exploded.
As a plant manager of a lithium battery plant (coin cells) in my last, when exposed to water, lithium explodes violently. A software glitche that douses batteries in water is mind bending for me, and should be for anyone.
Letting a toxic fire burn out is sad and very concerning, planning expansions of the same or similar technology is therefore frightful.
California has plans to build out .18 to .36% of the batteries required to support 5 consecutive days without solar or wind. The drastic shortfall is only eclipsed by the consequences experienced in California and elsewhere.
Reality remains undefeated. Turns out, emitting mandates under the auspices of green energy without appropriate planning, and accountability, is doomed to fail.
Who knows how much evidence experience it will take to prove to supporters of the anti oil and gas and coal movements to realize they are full of themselves at the expense of the majority of the population. And conversely, for the majority to wake up and quit tolerating this total nonsense. Throw the bums out!!
I sat down at the Massachusetts Municipal Association convention in Friday morning. Nice town administrator sat at the table with me. I began to make polite chit-chat and asked how his town was doing. He said great until this week. His town had 4 EV buses go up in flames and their chargers! And then he had to stand at the ribbon cutting for the "EV Alley" which was one of the main features of the MMA Conference. They highlighted a school bus, fire engine, trucks, cars, etc., for municipal use, all of which are EVs. Talk about bad timing and mud on your face. https://www.torquenews.com/1083/millions-dollars-wasted-brand-new-electric-school-buses-go-smoke-while-charging
Thanks for sharing!
Reminds me of when I worked on battery van development at GM back in the 80’s. One of the batteries we worked with were nickel iron cells. This is the battery first used in Edison electric vehicles. The problem with this chemistry is that it continually emits hydrogen. Without thorough ventilation this gas forms an explosive mixture with air. We worked with a battery comprised of about 100 cells. While on test at the proving grounds, one battery caught fire. I was the battery expert so they called me at 9 pm. When asked what the firemen should do, I told them to push the vehicle into the lake. They didn’t like that answer so I went there and donned gloves, apron and face shield to disconnect the parallel strings of cells from each other to prevent backfeed into a short. Fortunately while we worked on that nothing exploded.
As a plant manager of a lithium battery plant (coin cells) in my last, when exposed to water, lithium explodes violently. A software glitche that douses batteries in water is mind bending for me, and should be for anyone.
Letting a toxic fire burn out is sad and very concerning, planning expansions of the same or similar technology is therefore frightful.
California has plans to build out .18 to .36% of the batteries required to support 5 consecutive days without solar or wind. The drastic shortfall is only eclipsed by the consequences experienced in California and elsewhere.
Reality remains undefeated. Turns out, emitting mandates under the auspices of green energy without appropriate planning, and accountability, is doomed to fail.
This is an eye-opening report on a subject that gets suppressed in most media news.
“Drill baby drill” or “Burn baby burn”? Unfortunately, that’s the MO for California and it’s disastrous!!
Who knows how much evidence experience it will take to prove to supporters of the anti oil and gas and coal movements to realize they are full of themselves at the expense of the majority of the population. And conversely, for the majority to wake up and quit tolerating this total nonsense. Throw the bums out!!