Fire Chief Joel Mendoza of the North County Fire District said at this point, most of the fire had gone out. A water-based mitigation system did not work as designed, Vistra's senior director of community affairs Brad Watson said at the conference. Earlier in the day, a Monterey Sheriff official had said there were no active fire suppression efforts going on, "as the best approach, according to fire staff, is to allow the building and batteries to burn."

Yeah, I think massive chemical batteries for storing excess electricity to facilitate a contrived green energy market is a bad idea.

  • Yggstyle@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    So uh. I guess those coal and natural gas power plants would fare better in a fire. Something seems wrong there but OP clearly wouldn’t possibly post something on the Internet that was utterly detached from reality.

    Energy storage is just that. Fire is frequently quite good at releasing said energy.

    Lithium? poof.

    Oil? yup.

    Nat gas? mmhmm.

    wood? yup.

    Coal? dang.

    Guess all we got left is water - I’m sure that doesn’t have any specific regional requirements…

    So tell us champ: what energy storage you got all figured out from that armchair?

  • oyo@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 months ago

    This is a shitty Texas-based company cutting corners, who also had fires in 2021 and 2022. There are plenty of battery storage facilities operating safely.

    • Yggstyle@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      As someone living in Texas presently: you could have saved yourself a full sentence:

      This is a shitty Texas-based company cutting corners…

      to

      Texas company

      or honestly:

      Texas

      Would be sufficient. Any Texan that doesn’t own x texas-based-company is tired of that company’s bullshit. It’s one of the few things natives and transplants agree on.

      This PSA brought to you by the makers of: y’all, you all, and all y’all.