MOSS LANDING, Calif. — New agencies report a massive fire is destroying the Vistra
Energy battery storage plant in Moss Landing, one of the biggest such
facilities in the world. The blaze, which reportedly broke out late on Thursday
afternoon, has sent clouds of hazardous black smoke and toxic gases into the atmosphee,
prompting evacuations, road closures, and a significant emergency
response effort.
Moss Landing battery storage plant, Calif. on fire (picture Reuters)
The plant is a cornerstone of California’s clean energy strategy, its huge capacity to store energy from intermittent 'renewable' sources is a key component in the whacko state’s transition rush to net zero. This is not the first fire at the Moss Landing site facility which was was expanded in 2023 to hold 750 megawatts of electricity, enough to power thousands of homes.
Lithium battery fires are notoriously difficult to extinguish due not only to the high temperatures the materials burn at and toxic gases they emit, which pose risks to respiratory health, skin, and eyes, but also to the chemical nature of the reaction which does not respond to conventional fire fighting methods.
All staff at Moss Landing were safely evacuated, and emergency teams are working to contain the blaze within the plant’s concrete structure. Officials have stated that while the fire is extensive, it is “contained” to the building.
. Previous incidents in 2021 and 2022 were attributed to sprinkler malfunctions and system flaws, causing heightened scrutiny of battery storage safety. These incidents prompted California Governor Gavin Newsom to require battery plants to develop emergency response plans with local fire departments.
As authorities investigate this latest incident, concerns are rising over the safety of such facilities and their proximity to populated areas. This is a developing story, with updates expected as more information becomes available.
What we know so far is he fire is located in the northern part of the sate some 300 miles (500 km) north of the wildfires in Los Angeles. The plant contains tens of thousands of lithium batteries, which can be extremely difficult to put out if they go up in flames.
“There’s no way to sugar coat it. This is a disaster, is what it is,” Monterey County supervisor Glenn Church told KSBW-TV. But the fire is not expected to spread beyond the concrete building it is enclosed in, he added. Highway 1, located nearby, has been shut down by authorities.
The plant is around 100 miles (160 km) south of San Francisco, and
the blaze is unrelated to the ongoing wildfires in the southern
Californian city of Los Angeles, which started around 10 days ago.
This news is oce more likely to raise qustions about the safety of lithium battery technology. There are several ways in which lithium fires can pose more risk to people and property than other types of building or vehicle fires.
Thermal runaway is the most common issue with fires started by spontaneously combusting lithium-ion batteries. This is where the internal temperature of the battery quickly rises, usually because a damaged cell has overheated, generating more and more heat which in turn damages adjacent cells, createing a self-sustaining cycle.
It’s a rapid process and comes with such high temperatures that it can be difficult to tackle in the same way as a normal fire — water is especially dangerous to use for this fire type due to the creation of flammable hydrogen gas when it reacts with lithium.
Some lithium batteries can also release oxygen as they burn, adding more supply to the fire and intensifying the situation, even when there is little oxygen outside of the battery itself. This makes it hard to starve the fire of oxygen, a common tactic for other fire types.
The speed at which a lithium battery can overheat also risks explosions, something seen in waste management facilities when people have improperly disposed of their devices in regular waste collections.
Volatile and unpredictable, it’s easy to see why lithium-ion battery fires have earned a distinct reputation within the fire safety community.
The proponents of green energy “wind/solar plus storage” systems do not seem to like specifying storage capacity properly in Watt-Hour units. This leads to uniformed folks assuming there is far more energy than there really is. Reports say this facility provides energy stored during the day for use overnight which might lead some to conclude that it can provide 750 MW for 12 hours or more (I.e. 9,000 MWH). However, it has been more common for these systems to be rated based on 4 hours of delivery. We learn from the facility owner's website the plant can provide backup of 750 MW and 3000 MWh So it follows that its rating is based on 4 hours of duration. Not much backup for 'thousands of homes' (or one Big Tech AI data centre,) considering periods of dunkelflaute in Europe this winter have lasted for over a week in some areas.
The Moss landing facility is, in fact, rated at 3,000 MWH. But many systems are only designed to provide frequency stability support to balance wind/solar short term fluctuation and may only have enough capacity to provide a few minutes of rated output.
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Demented Joe Biden believes in his befuddled way that he will leave office with the USA in better shape than when he took over. In fact Dopey Joe is going out having made his country the world's biggest hate monger, universally loathed and mistrusted and also regarded as a nation totally motivated by greed and the lust for power.
It is hard to say how or even if Trump can change things. Will he return the US to the staus of leading global superpower or only cover the rotting remains of what was a respected nation with a nice new coat of paint?
The imbecile neocons who have been in power for the past four years, having claimed victory in a highly suspect election were, for the past three yeas and now are simply expressing their hatred of Russia through what may be a last ditch effort to start WW3. Any excuses to the contrary are lies.
To prompt their proxy in the desired war with Russia, the asinine Ukies to lauch a military attack on the sovereign territory of Turkey, a member of NATO, is beyond stupid. Are the non - demented members of the Biden White House team so off their faces on cocaine and hash they though having their lapdogs strike a gas pipeline inside Turkey would perhaps provoke a Russian response against a NATO ally?
In fact, had the attack suceeded, it would have only hurt America's allies, the NATO members in Europe that still depend on Russian gas. But unlike the Nordstream pipelne sabotage, which caused immense economic harm to some west European nations, including Germany, the Turkstream attack failed, a squadron of Ukrainian drones were shot down by Turkey's Russian made air defence systems.
The Current EU leadership could not be more defective if they were intentionally hand picked - and it's possible they were. There's no reason to keep pummeling the EU except for fun or because it's the proper thing for a government brain dead drone to do. The EU is perfectly capable of keeping itself down while feeling smug about it. Even now, with Ukraine in ruins and a generation of young men wasted, they are trying to prolong the war and block a Trump led bid to end the slaughter.
Then there's the obvious hope that something the criminals in Kiev do will hamstring Trump forcing him to keep Endless War Alive.
There's national security and there's being a War Criminal. US Democrats are War Criminals and the only way to fix the problem is to send many to jail for the rest of their lives. Not doing this will only make the next iteration of the imbecile World Domination Club even worse and much better planned and executed.
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Only an idiot would think the world will have a secret meeting where they decide to boycott US debt. Rather, long term rates will rise and rise. The share of the deficit that covers interest expense currently about 12% will rise to over 50%. People will independently decide that US debt is a joke of an investment and will put their savings somewhere else. Then things will snowball.
So, if the world doesn't lose respect for the US because it's the world's biggest hate monger, it will eventually stop buying its debt because the ponzi has become too obvious to ignore any longer and there's no hope of it ever turning around. Or both. And with Trump's inauguartion only a few days away, the warmongers have run out of time. World War Three canot save them now, the dream of global hefemony is fading fast and no amount of provocations by the puppet regime chan change that.
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