Fire Chief Joel Mendoza of the North County Fire District said at this point, most of the fire had gone out. A water-based mitigation system did not work as designed, Vistra's senior director of community affairs Brad Watson said at the conference. Earlier in the day, a Monterey Sheriff official had said there were no active fire suppression efforts going on, "as the best approach, according to fire staff, is to allow the building and batteries to burn."

Yeah, I think massive chemical batteries for storing excess electricity to facilitate a contrived green energy market is a bad idea.

  • gens@programming.devEnglish
    2·
    7 hours ago

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7G4ipM2qjfw

    OP is… trying his best, I guess. For now lipo is the best solution. Actually multiple things are the solution. Pumped water has a delay that needs to be covered by something else. Flywheels have mechanical chalenges. Molten salt also has problems. Etc. They all compliment each other. IMO best single solution would be nuclear. Salt will be better then lithium, but in some years.

    When batteries (ahcually accumulators, but whatever) are done properly, the fires should not go beyond one cell, if at all.

    PS Gravity, except pumped water, is hilariously bad.

    • Yggstyle@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      5 hours ago

      OP is… trying his best, I guess.

      I commend your faith in … ehm… the human spirit we’ll say.

      PS Gravity, except pumped water, is hilariously bad.

      Keenly aware. I got a good laugh out of it when I saw it mentioned.

      Practical Engineering is great. He does a fantastic job of explaining things simply and frequently provides models to demonstrate things.

      100% on the combination of things statement. Many different storage mediums have different advantages and disadvantages. The right tool for the right job. Flawed though it is I always loved reading about molten salt… It just seemed like such a metal way to store energy. 😂

      Realistically - I don’t mind people being incorrect or even just leaning into their particular beliefs or preferences… but OP emphatically stating incorrect information and then arguing as people corrected him was irritating.