Global Warming Incident ??

[Phil Allison]

See:


https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-10-17/solar-challenge-leading-vehicle-bursts-into-flames/11611112


** Oh dear....




.... Phil

 

[Bill Sloman]

On Sunday, October 20, 2019 at 3:26:20 PM UTC+11, Phil Allison wrote:

See:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-10-17/solar-challenge-leading-vehicle-bursts-into-flames/11611112

** Oh dear....

More likely a bad wiring incident.

--
Bill Sloman, Sydney

 

On Sat, 19 Oct 2019 21:26:15 -0700 (PDT), Phil Allison
<pallison49@gmail.com> wrote:

See:


https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-10-17/solar-challenge-leading-vehicle-bursts-into-flames/11611112


** Oh dear....




... Phil

Gasoline cars keep the chemical reactants apart. Batteries don't.



--

John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc

lunatic fringe electronics

 

[bitrex]

On 10/20/19 10:49 AM, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:

On Sat, 19 Oct 2019 21:26:15 -0700 (PDT), Phil Allison
pallison49@gmail.com> wrote:


See:


https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-10-17/solar-challenge-leading-vehicle-bursts-into-flames/11611112


** Oh dear....




... Phil

Gasoline cars keep the chemical reactants apart. Batteries don't.

They don't do a very good job of it:

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaFEY9t-wfk>

 

[Martin Riddle]

On Sat, 19 Oct 2019 21:26:15 -0700 (PDT), Phil Allison
<pallison49@gmail.com> wrote:

See:


https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-10-17/solar-challenge-leading-vehicle-bursts-into-flames/11611112


** Oh dear....




... Phil

That looks look like a rather large carbon foot print there.
For the distance they traveled it sould have been smaller.

Cheers

 

[Bill Sloman]

On Monday, October 21, 2019 at 1:49:22 AM UTC+11, jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:

On Sat, 19 Oct 2019 21:26:15 -0700 (PDT), Phil Allison
pallison49@gmail.com> wrote:

See:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-10-17/solar-challenge-leading-vehicle-bursts-into-flames/11611112

** Oh dear....


Gasoline cars keep the chemical reactants apart. Batteries don't.

In a gasoline car, the gas is in a gas tank, and the air is outside, until the tank gets damaged.

In a battery the reagents are closer together, but stay separated until the battery gets damaged.

There was a spate of incidents where a particular brand of lithium batteries burst into flame spontaneously.

https://www.economist.com/gulliver/2016/10/17/more-airlines-are-banning-samsungs-smartphone

but that seems to have been an isolated problem.

--
Bill Sloman, Sydney