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Vistra's battery storage facility goes up in flames, spurs evacuation orders (www.yahoo.com)

submitted 1 month ago by CrimeDad@lemmy.crimedad.work to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Yeah, I think massive chemical batteries for storing excess electricity to facilitate a contrived green energy market is a bad idea.

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[–] yggstyle@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

So uh. I guess those coal and natural gas power plants would fare better in a fire. Something seems wrong there but OP clearly wouldn't possibly post something on the Internet that was utterly detached from reality.

Energy storage is just that. Fire is frequently quite good at releasing said energy.

Lithium? poof.

Oil? yup.

Nat gas? mmhmm.

wood? yup.

Coal? dang.

Guess all we got left is water - I'm sure that doesn't have any specific regional requirements...

So tell us champ: what energy storage you got all figured out from that armchair?

[–] oyo@lemm.ee 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is a shitty Texas-based company cutting corners, who also had fires in 2021 and 2022. There are plenty of battery storage facilities operating safely.

[–] yggstyle@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

As someone living in Texas presently: you could have saved yourself a full sentence:

This is a shitty Texas-based company cutting corners...

Texas company

or honestly:

Texas

Would be sufficient. Any Texan that doesn't own x texas-based-company is tired of that company's bullshit. It's one of the few things natives and transplants agree on.

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