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Does it? This is the same issue it's always been: things catch on fire sometimes, we've decided that the best people to handle this are firemen, paid for by the
by fastball 6y ago
Does it? This is the same issue it's always been: things catch on fire sometimes, we've decided that the best people to handle this are firemen, paid for by the local government.
- gugagore 6y agoBut what previous thing is most analogous to batteries on cars? Cellphones and hoverboards are so much tinier. Maybe this isn't the same issue specifically, and some scale of government can require a tax to fund e.g. more education or training.
- KptMarchewa 6y agoMaybe cars powered by literally thousands of explosions per second?
- gugagore 6y agoSo batteries on cars is analogous to cars? I mean, could be. Maybe the EV battery is just like a gasoline tank, but something suggests that there are important differences.
- caf 6y agoI freely admit this is a pedantic point, but it's extraordinarily doubtful that any road car reaches 2000 ignitions per second (the threshold for "thousands"). In a 4-stroke engine each cylinder ignites once every two revolutions, so even a 12-cylinder engine wouldn't reach 2000 ignitions per second until 20,000 RPM. A more typical case - say, a 6 cylinder engine hitting the redline at 7,000RPM is experiencing 350 ignitions per second - so, hundreds rather than thousands.
- KptMarchewa 6y agoThanks.
- fastball 6y agoI'm confused why something needs to be equivalent to batteries in cars? Do you know what's not equivalent to an electric car? A fertilizer plant catching on fire. And you guessed it, that's also handled by the fire department.
- klmadfejno 6y agoDoes it? That sounds like the kind of thing that gets some sort of higher tier involvement. Is there not higher jurisdiction for managing larger fires that require more than the local crew?
- Spooky23 6y agoLots of stuff... hazmats, grain elevators, etc. It’s not unreasonable for firemen to put out fires. It’s just a novel path that requires training.
- FatalLogic 6y ago>But what previous thing is most analogous to batteries on cars? Large tanks of volatile, flammable, potentially-explosive liquid in proximity to ignition sources in the car?
- eevilspock 6y agoAnother reminder that we have a hybrid socialist free-market system, without even mentioning Tesla subsidies or how much of the science was publicly funded or "borrowed" from history without payment to the past.