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When this battery caught fire they told area residents to stay indoors, close all windows, and turn off their HVAC to avoid breathing the fumes. We don't get to
by dangrossman 5y ago
When this battery caught fire they told area residents to stay indoors, close all windows, and turn off their HVAC to avoid breathing the fumes. We don't get told to shelter in place when a diesel vehicle drives by and we cook with natural gas in our homes -- are you sure the safety is the same?
- ajross 5y agoActually my area had a transformer fire at a residential substation (not a peaker plant, but same infrastructure) about three years ago. And... the instructions were exactly the same! Apparently it smelled bad within a quarter mile, put a ton of soot in the air (apparently from the cooling oil burning), and was on the nightly news. And until this thread I hadn't bothered to remember it. I doubt many do. Come on. Stuff breaks, things burn. We don't want it to burn. We should take reasonable action to make sure it's engineered not to burn. But if it happens to burn? Meh. Let's not lose our shit about it and start banning critically important technology, OK?
- mlindner 5y agoYou've never seen a video of a large diesel fire? They put out deep black smoke that would definitely not be safe to breathe.