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Can someone smarter than me comment on the danger of having one of these next door to an apartment or office building? I assume that we're talking about lots o
by jtbigwoo 13y ago
Can someone smarter than me comment on the danger of having one of these next door to an apartment or office building? I assume that we're talking about lots of volts and amps here. Are these stations any more or less dangerous than a gas station?
- bloaf 13y agoI'm going to guess that they are orders of magnitude safer than gas stations. Firstly: no ground pollution. Gas stations are terrible for the land they are built on as they leak lots of organic compounds into the soil. Secondarily: no large reservoirs of combustible materials. I don't know the details of the supercharging stations, but I'd guess that they are at least as safe as the electric transformers we see on telephone poles everywhere.
- baddox 13y agoIt looks like their superchargers output 120 kW, which is 12 times the output of the "high voltage outlet" they cite. If you're just talking about the high power output of these chargers, then I doubt it's particularly dangerous.
- timroman 13y agoIt's not any more powerful than all of the other power lines that run under, above or near your building. I wouldn't be concerned about it.
- rayiner 13y agoFar, far, less dangerous than a gas station. Gas stations are environmental disasters. All sorts of chemicals and fumes emitted by those.