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As I understand it, the batteries are dangerous also, being lithium or sodium. These are potentially city block-size Note 7s, right?
by ibejoeb 10y ago
As I understand it, the batteries are dangerous also, being lithium or sodium. These are potentially city block-size Note 7s, right?
- toomuchtodo 10y agoNot when engineered properly. https://electrek.co/2016/12/19/tesla-fire-powerpack-test-safety/ https://electrek.co/2016/12/19/tesla-fire-powerpack-test-saf... EDIT: Wide swaths of land aren't off limits to humans for decades when a lithium ion substation burns down.
- redial 10y agoSo are reactors, in fact everything is bulletproof if you only count the successes.
- cesarb 10y agoInteresting. So, it's much less impressive than a substation transformer explosion; I had expected it to be similar. A "transformer substation explosion" scenario is a good base for a comparison, since we have a lot of experience with them, and the scenario (within a city, near other buildings, with high-voltage wiring) is similar.
- m_mueller 10y agoAFAIK the danger of Note 7s is mostly due to the small size of these batteries, i.e. how close anode/cathode are times the energy density times the amount of space it has for thermal expansion. In infrastructure sized batteries this isn't really a big issue.