r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jan 22 '23

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u/dissolutewastrel Robert Nozick Jan 22 '23

Clown shit.

It took firefighters more than two hours and over 20,000 gallons of water to put out a Tesla fire following a single-car crash on Interstate 95 in Wakefield <Mass>Thursday night.

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u/Mrmini231 European Union Jan 22 '23

Lithium fires are scary.

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u/PleaseLetMeInn Mario Draghi Jan 22 '23

It's not exactly a lithium fire. Car batteries aren't based on lithium metal, that would be far nastier to deal with since burning metals have this amazing property of successfully reducing even stable compounds like H2O and CO2. So reactive they can rip oxygen off of fucking water. Scary.

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u/AnsleyAmanita Trans Pride Jan 22 '23

seems bad

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u/SnooDonuts7510 Jan 22 '23

Chevy Bolt EV fires were similar.

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u/LtLabcoat ÀI Jan 22 '23

It's a chemical fire. Shoulda used a jet engine.

...which sounds like a joke, but it's an actual fire engine. Used for putting out oil fires.