A raging fire as broken out at one of the world's largest battery storage facilities in California.
A fire at a battery facility on the site of Vistra Corp's Moss Landing power plant in Monterey County, California, prompted orders for the evacuation of places nearby, the company and county officials said on Thursday.
The fire began in a building that contains lithium-ion batteries on Thursday afternoon, an official at the Monterey County Sheriff's office said, adding that about 40 per cent of the building had been consumed as of late Thursday.
"The environmentalists who create most of the issues in California had no issue with this facility in the center of their world? So much for “green “ energy being kinder on the environment!" Quote from one comment; this plant is in a very sensitive environmental area. Who got paid off to put this here? Plus, Cali should be fined for all the pollution they are putting in the air from the fires.
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That power plant ran on NG. It came online in 1950 and was owned by PG&E. Some outfit out of TX has owned and operated it since 2016 or so.
DeleteThe plant sits in the small estuary of the Salinas River which empties into Monterey Bay close by. Adjacent to the plant are navigable channels to allow for a small marina and fuel dock.
There is/was The Whole Enchilada restaurant very close. Great food.
The state won't pay. No one in gov will be demoted, or fired, or sent to prison. At this phase, theiyre in the blame game. In a couple of months, the culprits will be named. It won't be any gov agency.
DuPont, in their explosives plants, makes sure not to have all the explosives in one place to prevent this EXACT situation. Everything is arranged so that a fire or mishap in one of the units containing explosives, will not affect another unit. They hire experienced engineers that calculate the energy stored and maximum possible rate of release to the gnat’s ass, and design the individual units and spacing between them so the whole plant doesn’t go up in flames.
ReplyDeleteI don’t know what the designer of this lithium battery storage facility was thinking, but it was certainly not thought through before it was built.
Are you assuming catastrophic failure was not the plan?
DeleteAt this point what's a little extra toxic smoke mixed in with the rest that's been generated over the last ten days and which has no sign of being brought to heel. I can't wait for the late winter rains, if they come this year, so that we can watch all of the burnt out cellar holes slide down the slopes into the Pacific. Won't that be fun?
ReplyDeleteOn the one hand, I'm sorta sympathetic to the people that lost everything. However, they did it to themselves by the way they vote. As Obama once said "Elections have consequences".
What we in the rest of the country have to be cognizant of is these people fleeing SoCal to other areas of the country and bringing their idiotic voting habits with them as has been demonstrated in CO, some areas of TX and the Pacific NW.
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And AZ, UT, ID, NV…they’re a metastatic cancer.
DeleteObama said that? Awsome! Does anyone have the video of him gagging on the truth. That guy would lie even if the truth served him better. Just like Newscum, who by the way always smiles when he lies.
DeleteDon't quote that mulatto faggot. We all already knew it. He said that simply to rub his opponents. Very churlish of him. But as expected of him.
DeleteThis issue is the real electric car killer. After three years when your new battery has worn out, what do you do with the 1000# plus weight of highly flammable toxic waste. There is no recycling and storing them together is like storing your weapons grade plutonium in big lots. But if you can't find someone to take the thing off your hands do you put it in the yard on blocks or light it up.
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ReplyDeleteThis is deliciously ironic. Sure hope it doesn’t impact the delta smelt. Legio XIX
ReplyDeleteAny material that doesn't get transported by the littoral current will wash into a deep water canyon. The head of the canyon is just offshore and aligned with the river mouth.
DeleteGot a big plant going up in Kentucky. Just a disaster in the making.
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