Alan L wrote: There is the Q of what to do with all the dead batteries. The green answer right now is 'repurpose them'. That doesn't answer the Q. Just passes the buck down the line. You still end up with a mountain of dead batteries at some point. Apparently we are accumulating warehouses of them now. Nowhere to go. Then if we all have an electric fleet , how do we power them? Dam all the rivers? There are many unanswered Qs which on a small scale may not be an issue - but take it to the end result and there are major problems.
Alan |
Alan L wrote: There is the Q of what to do with all the dead batteries. The green answer right now is 'repurpose them'. That doesn't answer the Q. Just passes the buck down the line. You still end up with a mountain of dead batteries at some point. Apparently we are accumulating warehouses of them now. Nowhere to go. Then if we all have an electric fleet , how do we power them? Dam all the rivers? There are many unanswered Qs which on a small scale may not be an issue - but take it to the end result and there are major problems.
Alan |
Kevin.S wrote: No one has said where on earth this huge amount of electricity generation is going to come from, or where the new electricity distribution grid to move it around is coming form either. Given the speed of infrastructure build in NZ I'd suggest we are about 30 years too late in starting to prepare for this. |
Herman said it took firefighters nearly four hours and more than 30,000 gallons of water to extinguish the fire.
“Normally when the fire department arrives, they have the vehicle fire in control in minutes, but this went on close to four hours,” said Herman.
At one point, crews had to call Tesla to ask how to put the fire out, Herman said.
https://www.firerescue1.com/firefighter-training/articles/what-firefighters-need-to-know-about-electric-car-batteries-omiDv8vd87oZ9ZKs
In each of the six full-scale burn tests, firefighters at the test site found that they needed to flow large amounts of water on the batteries, because fire kept flaring up even after it appeared to be extinguished. In one test, a battery fire reignited 22 hours after it was thought to be extinguished.
Yep the future is run Huntly on coal so we can have EVs.Doesnt work for me!
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