Re: Electric vehicle battery fires, what to know and how to react

On 25/08/2024 16:04, john larkin wrote:

On Sun, 25 Aug 2024 11:42:25 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
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On a sunny day (Sun, 25 Aug 2024 09:54:36 +0100) it happened
liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid (Liz Tuddenham) wrote in
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Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> wrote:
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Electric vehicle battery fires - what to know and how to react
It's very rare, but lithium-ion batteries in electric vehicles can catch fire.
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https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/08/electric-vehicle-battery-fires-what-t
o-know-and-how-to-react/
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Good to know how to react when you electric car is on fire...

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So sales of fire extinguishers will plummet as there is no point in
carrying one.

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I do not even have one, but to get out of the upstairs bedroom here I have a rope ready...

 We have a built-in ladder that accesses our flat roof from the bedroom
deck. After that, we could walk almost the entire block on peoples'
roofs.

Isn't that also a means of access for the criminal fraternity?

Downstairs a 250 Ah lipo battery pack, those are supposed to not ignite
I have no 'lectric' car (yet?)
My bike will be OK...
Lots of Lipo batteries around the house, drone, radios, all sorts of stuff.
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Storms here, maybe I should get a wind powered generator
may need a building permit ....

 Does residential wind power make any sense?

Only if you want to annoy your neighbours with a loud whirring noise when the wind is blowing. Of course, it depends on who you believe, and who is providing full information. See <https://tesup.com/uk/blogs/post/how-loud-are-household-wind-turbines>
 From the information these wind turbine sellers provide it looks looks really good - only 35 dB!
See the same graph at <https://windexchange.energy.gov/projects/sound>, and you'll see that states the sound level is the same. BUT it also notes in the caption under the graph "At 300 meters away, which is the nearest distance a wind turbine typically is to a building, the sounds produced by a large wind energy project range from 35–45 decibels..."
So as long as you're 300 metres (1000ft) from the domestic turbine the sound level shouldn't bother you. How many urban or even suburban areas do you know where the 300m distance is likely?
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Jeff