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.

  • humanspiral@lemmy.caEnglish
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    12 hours ago

    LIthium Iron Phosphate is cheapest relatively dense battery type. Sodium ion will be if lithium get expensive.

    • Boomkop3@reddthat.comEnglish
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      2 hours ago

      You can draw an arbitrary line of density you find good enough. But with how much space us wasted in some countries, that line should vary a bit place to place

      • humanspiral@lemmy.caEnglish
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        1 hour ago

        With 40 foot containers providing utility or smaller scale storage solutions of 2.9mwh per container with LFP batteries, that is about 170mwh per acre. Before stacking. I don’t believe a lack of density matters anywhere in the world. Spare space inside buildings is usually sufficient for building needs.

        • Boomkop3@reddthat.comEnglish
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          4 minutes ago

          A lack of density definitely matters in some places. I’ve been to a bunch of countries now, some have plenty of space, some really don’t