Evacuation orders issued for Moss Landing Battery Plant fire; residents asked to close all entry points

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Hubby knows the Env Manager there, she said the fire Crews can’t do anything. They’re just watching it burn. California, in their brilliant decision making abilities, decided to store the power plant’s energy in batteries made by Tesla. Everybody else puts it on the grid. This isn’t the first time there’s been a fire there. Amazing that California doesn’t learn. /s

LOL>>>Go Green, Baby!!

Forests, grasslands, chaparral, thousands of homes, mansions...it’s all burning up in California.

The pollution from the utility battery fires, forest fires, scrub brush fires, Tesla car fired, long-haul EV truck fires, house fires, grassland fires and more is a million times higher than all of California’s automobiles operating for 100 years.

Yes, brilliant decision makers. These idiots think they can rebuild our entire energy infrastructure in a few short years. It took 150 years to construct our energy systems and decades of engineering refinement and optimization. But these unicorn fart breathers think they are so smart they can do it overnight.

Oh, they’re just about to start building a huge battery-grid storage facility near me, in WA. But not THAT NEAR to me.

Looks like an attempt to hobble President Trump’s term of office

Otay Mesa battery plant fire in May 2024...

Fire crews took 24 hours to “get a handle on” the flare that erupted May 15 at the 250-megawatt Gateway Energy Storage Facility in Otay Mesa near San Diego. Two days later it reignited—and then smouldered for more than a week. Surrounding businesses were evacuated and a 600-foot safety barrier was established to keep civilians away from possibly dangerous levels of hydrogen near the facility.

“The fire is what we call ‘thermal runaway’—(meaning) the lithium-ion batteries are kind of ignited in their burning, so what we are doing right now is trying to contain the toxic fumes and the smoke, and the fire obviously,” said Cal Fire Battalion Chief Patrick Walker, during the response to the second fire. “But it’s one of those processes that could be long-duration.”

The facility’s lithium-ion batteries are believed to be the source of the fire. They are prone to thermal runaway, a chain reaction that results in the battery producing heat more rapidly than it can dissipate. Internal battery temperatures can spike to around 752°F in milliseconds, and the intense heat driving the fires make them extremely difficult to put out.

It's kind of ironic that Musk's engineers can master the incredible energy release in his rockets, but can't contain it in Li-Ion batteries.

The "clean energy transition" is a chimera, a ridiculous dream, an infantile obsession driven by the global warming scam. It's driven by hundreds of thousands of people pursuing "green" get rich quick schemes. Germany and now all of western Europe are rapidly de-industrializing pursuing this idiocy.