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ksbw.com/article/fire-moss-lan


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@douglasvb Not again!!


@ai6yr this is like the... Third time?

There are several different battery facilities from different companies there and at least one is experimental.

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The fire at one of the several s is still burning in . And everyone is still evacuated. It's been about a day now.

Here's some info on the fire: montereycountynow.com/blogs/ne

There are some decent photos here: montereycountynow.com/blogs/ne

It's looking like the facility is going to be offline for a long time. This will probably end up as a case study in my classes in the future.


I wonder how much better or worse this fire is versus living down wind from a coal power plant. Spoiler alert: the fallout from coal plants is pretty horrific.

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OK I'm still not clear what's happened here

"The fire at the Vistra lithium ion battery storage facility began... "

"the lithium ion battery plant owned..."

So does this place manufacture Li-ion batteries, store batteries manufactured elsewhere, or store electrical power in finished batteries

Not sure what difference there really is between the three, but haven't seen what the facility *is* clearly called out

cc @ai6yr

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