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I do love GP's excitement about the energy potential of violent exothermic reaction upon contact with water ... and the proposal mere sentences later to ship in

I do love GP's excitement about the energy potential of violent exothermic reaction upon contact with water ... and the proposal mere sentences later to ship industrial quantities thereof on creaky old ships

selimthegrim 4mo ago
Beirut would like a word about "any old warehouse"
- kristjansson 4mo ago
  That, at least, needed only to keep out heat and combustion, and could have been extinguished with water had there been enough, and in time. Instead, consider the absolute PITA that is an EV fire, but worse, and floating in an ocean of the only thing that could make it worse.
  - lazide 4mo ago
    Hey, if it explodes then no more worries about trying to put it out?
- robocat 4mo ago
  Which stands out because it is now uncommon. I'd expect warehouse tragedies to be more common in the past?
  - lazide 4mo ago
    They have been quite common - they just aren’t typically in the middle of a major metro with 1000 cameras on them, because most governments aren’t that dysfunctional. Notably, metallic sodium at scale would be way worse than this [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_City_disaster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_City_disaster]. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Fertilizer_Company_explosion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Fertilizer_Company_explos...]. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PEPCON_disaster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PEPCON_disaster] I’m not aware of anyone crazy enough to stockpile pure metallic sodium to anything like this scale. Here is the gov’t dumping a barrel of it in a lake though [https://youtu.be/HY7mTCMvpEM?si=aSJ2dPLrXsUuGOOJ https://youtu.be/HY7mTCMvpEM?si=aSJ2dPLrXsUuGOOJ].
    - robocat 4mo ago
      Love that disposal - lucky the lake has no fish. Here's the link without the tracking (ShareInsights &si) "The Disposal of Sodium, 1947 Washington" 20000 lbs of Sodium https://youtu.be/HY7mTCMvpEM https://youtu.be/HY7mTCMvpEM
rzwitserloot 3mo ago
As I said, H2 has violent exothermic reaction potential just the same.

selimthegrim 4mo ago

Beirut would like a word about "any old warehouse"

kristjansson 4mo ago
That, at least, needed only to keep out heat and combustion, and could have been extinguished with water had there been enough, and in time. Instead, consider the absolute PITA that is an EV fire, but worse, and floating in an ocean of the only thing that could make it worse.
- lazide 4mo ago
  Hey, if it explodes then no more worries about trying to put it out?
robocat 4mo ago
Which stands out because it is now uncommon. I'd expect warehouse tragedies to be more common in the past?
- lazide 4mo ago
  They have been quite common - they just aren’t typically in the middle of a major metro with 1000 cameras on them, because most governments aren’t that dysfunctional. Notably, metallic sodium at scale would be way worse than this [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_City_disaster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_City_disaster]. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Fertilizer_Company_explosion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Fertilizer_Company_explos...]. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PEPCON_disaster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PEPCON_disaster] I’m not aware of anyone crazy enough to stockpile pure metallic sodium to anything like this scale. Here is the gov’t dumping a barrel of it in a lake though [https://youtu.be/HY7mTCMvpEM?si=aSJ2dPLrXsUuGOOJ https://youtu.be/HY7mTCMvpEM?si=aSJ2dPLrXsUuGOOJ].
  - robocat 4mo ago
    Love that disposal - lucky the lake has no fish. Here's the link without the tracking (ShareInsights &si) "The Disposal of Sodium, 1947 Washington" 20000 lbs of Sodium https://youtu.be/HY7mTCMvpEM https://youtu.be/HY7mTCMvpEM

rzwitserloot 3mo ago

As I said, H2 has violent exothermic reaction potential just the same.