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What do you bet that idiot tried to put water on a LITHIUM ignition source?
You would be surprised on how many people are unaware that water only extinguishes specific fires such as wood and stuff.
Chemical, electrical, and gasoline/diesel fires + water, no good.
What the fuck was he trying to do? Anyway it's not easy to put out an electric battery fire as far as I know. Fire extinguishers are the best option but even that may not be enough.
A lithium battery on fire is actually 3 different kinds of fire - its a chemical fire, an electrical fire and a metal fire all in one. When the 787 dreamliner was experiencing battery fires I believe the fire brigade at Boston airport basically discovered nothing really put it out and they could only really stop it spreading with enormous volumes of foam. Basically your best bet with a lithium battery fire is to let it burn itself out and maybe put it somewhere where it can't set fire to anything else or put out anything near by that starts to burn.
And the massive volumes of foam doesn't actually stop anything, it just solves fire the one 100% guaranteed way: Vaccuum. Sufficient foam removes all air. No air, no fire.
self oxidising fires exist and I think some forms of battery fire can self oxidise
True, which does make them much harder to either strip all oxygen from, or replace all with pure oxygen. If the object itself contains oxygen in its chemical makeup, pressure needs to be maintained as well. A true vaccuum will still kill it (as opposed to merely smothering it which wouldn't work), but that's not something even the average science lab has on-hand, let alone some hick in the suburbs.
You have to get one that's rated for chemical fires
Grab a fire-proof blanket and try to wrap it up and drag it outside and let it burn itself out I guess. Oh and hope that it doesn't explode too much while you're dragging it :D
Or, if you rent and have household insurance: call the fire department and prepare to write an insurance claim, preferable while looking up if a vehicle inside a residence is even covered.
Most reliable option is a huge bucket of sand. They'll have to get huge containers full of sand to extinguish burning electrical cars. Seems like a really good idea to push for more electric cars when the cars exploding make it a bitch to extinguish. In this case here I'd try to get it out and hope it doesn't explode more.
It better be literally tonnes too, for an electric car's battery bank I imagine it might be a big enough energy source that if you don't enough there's a real chance of it containing it briefly, then blowing up and showering molten glass everywhere.
He's panicked, which I guess I could understand if he hadn't already come to terms with owning an electric scooter and the things you should file in your mind as a result. Just like I cooked up a plan when I built a 3d printer so that, in the event that heater runaway doesn't set my house on fire.
Yet, he does, and didn't, so now he's running around and slipping on floors instead of getting the right extinguisher (best case) or just GTFO.
I'm with others on battery fires, you don't extinguish them, at best you contain them and minimize collateral damage.
The energy is already there in multiple forms (it's the worst hybrid of a chemical, electrical and metal fire all at once), and unlike a regular fire getting it under combustion temperature won't even stop it for long, as there's still a massive chemical potential and damaged containment between it.
Honestly the best you can have for a contingency plan once ignition has occurred is to have something sufficiently long and insulated that will let you relatively safely drag it the fuck outside in the early stages and just hope for the best.
Just when you think it is at its worst, it goes even further.
So this retard goes from trying to douce an electrical fire with water to opening the door, letting in more oxygen. I'm surprised he didn't try to stamp it out with his bare feet.
Given that he's in the room with the fire, I don't think oxygen starving the fire is the best idea. Although given the quality of the rest of his crisis management, maybe he doesn't use that much oxygen himself either.
This dude though hahahaha
Pretty safe. 99% of these 'lithium battery suddenly turns into a giant pulsing blowtorch' things are cheap batteries from China, and as everyone should know, you can't trust anything cheap from china.
The cheap Chinese batteries are a different chemistry, lithium iron phosphate, that's way safer than Tesla's lithium cobalt batteries.
There've been many Tesla garage and spontaneous fires, although not a big percentage of cars sold. So an individual's Tesla is not likely to catch fire in their garage, but given the severity of it happening you'd be a fool to not park it outside.
edit: Tesla is recently starting to also use iron phosphate batteries so hopefully fewer fires.
There are literally billions of Li-ion batteries in the world. While this is scary, it is exceedingly rare when you consider how many there are in use
Especially considering how minor and small a flaw in the battery actually has to be in order to runaway.
Cheap Chinese . Never buy cheap Chinese anything.
Never buy Chinese if you can avoid it. Problem solved.
My family always got the cheat chyna knockoff because it was cheap, then moaned when it had to be replaced 2 to 3 times in the genuine articles average lifespan.
If you can help it avoid chyna.
What a faggot.
It's the hoverboards all over again. Chinese knockoffs put hobby-grade batteries in consumer-grade products, then dipshit consumers leave the batteries fully charged for weeks, the get surprise pikachu when it puffs up and explodes.
This happens more often than one might think
That fire is probably still going.
If it's wrong that I laughed my ass of at this poor schmuck's reaction, I don't want to be right.
wow that guy is useless
Pouring water on lithium.... bold I have to admit. Clearly a liberal art major.....
Huuurrr water put out fire dddurrrrrrr....
chinese bombs
The ol spicy keychain
Damn, I was hoping he would throw it in the pool.
Lithium battery plus pool water.