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Thank you for that context. I once pointed out to Wells Fargo risk management that the extreme fear, uncertainty, and doubt regarding the presence and - God fo
by ehvatum 4y ago
Thank you for that context.
I once pointed out to Wells Fargo risk management that the extreme fear, uncertainty, and doubt regarding the presence and - God forbid - charging of electric vehicles in their garages is misplaced.
Think of it: gasoline is both extremely prone to evaporation, and its vapor is explosive. It’s kept in single-walled steel and aluminum sheet metal containers mounted to vehicle undersides that are exposed to every insult imaginable, from flying debris to road salt, in ten+ gallon volumes. These containers are inspected yearly at best, and even then, only in the most perfunctory manner. Best-practice and long-known techniques for early identification of metal fatigue and corrosive failure standard to other industries for far milder threats are simply not applied. Yet, a single leaking container in an enclosed space could lead to catastrophic detonation and boiling liquid exploding vapor (BLEVE) explosions in any adjacent containers. And there are many adjacent containers in these “parking garages”. Hundreds, even thousands of them!!
Is Wells Fargo in the business of constructing massive time-bombs?! Because, gentlemen, that is certainly what we have on our hands, in the shape of these so-called “parking garages”.
If “risk management” is to mean anything at all, it must address this clear and present danger.
As a first measure, explosive-laden transports must be excluded from enclosed parking structures. You want to bring literally a hundred pounds of liquid fire into the garage, because why?
I’ll tell you why: because you’re not thinking like a risk manager!
They recognized the truth of it and the only thing to do was laugh.