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> some guy yelling "fire" in a crowded theater to be fair, there really was a fire, and it was a bad one. You can't just lose 80% of the capacity at one of th
by happyopossum 1y ago
> some guy yelling "fire" in a crowded theater
to be fair, there really was a fire, and it was a bad one. You can't just lose 80% of the capacity at one of the largest battery storage facilities in the US in a multi-day fire and hand-wave it away as some kind of conspiracy theory.
- ImaCake 1y agoIt's also just bad optics, unfortunately. A coal power plant kills people living nearby slowly over the course of decades, a battery fire might injure a few people but it does so in a way that makes headlines. No one cares about boring lawsuits over a power plant being turned off next year anyway, and that is part of what makes these kinds of stories so frustrating!