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Nobody would even blink if a rural home had a 500 gallon horizontal propane tank, and that represents 20x the energy content of a 1MWh battery pack.
by jeffbee 1y ago
Nobody would even blink if a rural home had a 500 gallon horizontal propane tank, and that represents 20x the energy content of a 1MWh battery pack.
- fdsfdsfdsaasd 1y agoIt would make me nervous, although that's only due to my engineering background. In any case, it all depends on what you want to stand next to. A large explosion, or a multi-day metal fire releasing clouds of hydrogen flouride.
- BobaFloutist 1y agoIf the metal fire is over multiple days, you can walk away from it. The large explosion can kill you before you know there's a problem.
- fdsfdsfdsaasd 1y agoTrue enough, but I'd want to be a lot further away from a lithium fire than from a propane explosion.
- BobaFloutist 1y agoI think there's kind of a local minimum where you need to be farther from the propane explosion, but after your outside the blast radius you're fine, but less so for the lithium fire
- ooterness 1y agoRelevant video from USCSB, from a propane explosion in 2007 that killed four people. https://youtu.be/JzdnUZReoLM?feature=shared https://youtu.be/JzdnUZReoLM?feature=shared