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07/08/15 14:12 Filed in: My Ideas
‘It Was An Inferno. Before I Realised What Was Happening, The Whole Wall Went Up!’
As the world moves to collecting energy at its point of use, it is worth investigating what could happen when things go wrong.
Home-sized lithium batteries make solar viable, collecting energy during the day and storing it for use at night in new batteries made by such companies as Samsung, Tesla and Bosch.
Now I have no doubt that the safety systems of the batteries and the solar arrays are infallible. Just like the Titanic. But what happens an iceberg comes along in the form of a house fire caused by some other reason, such as a wildfire (U.S.A.), or bushfire (Australia). Or, say, a car running into the side of the house. Or an aircraft.
See what happens when you try to put out a lithium battery fire with a fire extinguisher HERE and watch this insightful NBC News report on Lithium Batteries fires and airliners HERE. They just don’t go out.
I suggest that these batteries are installed in a cradle which simultaneously disconnects the cables and ejects the battery from the side of the house, allowing it to burn-out without setting fire to your most expensive possession.
The ejection handle, (there could be multiple handles), would be far enough away from the battery so as to be operated safely.
Next is to design a system impenetrable to every fourteen year old boy on the way home from school, so they cannot ‘fire-off’ every house battery in the street for a laugh.
7th August 2015
As the world moves to collecting energy at its point of use, it is worth investigating what could happen when things go wrong.
Home-sized lithium batteries make solar viable, collecting energy during the day and storing it for use at night in new batteries made by such companies as Samsung, Tesla and Bosch.
Now I have no doubt that the safety systems of the batteries and the solar arrays are infallible. Just like the Titanic. But what happens an iceberg comes along in the form of a house fire caused by some other reason, such as a wildfire (U.S.A.), or bushfire (Australia). Or, say, a car running into the side of the house. Or an aircraft.
See what happens when you try to put out a lithium battery fire with a fire extinguisher HERE and watch this insightful NBC News report on Lithium Batteries fires and airliners HERE. They just don’t go out.
I suggest that these batteries are installed in a cradle which simultaneously disconnects the cables and ejects the battery from the side of the house, allowing it to burn-out without setting fire to your most expensive possession.
The ejection handle, (there could be multiple handles), would be far enough away from the battery so as to be operated safely.
Next is to design a system impenetrable to every fourteen year old boy on the way home from school, so they cannot ‘fire-off’ every house battery in the street for a laugh.
7th August 2015
Further reading. Jennifer Bond points us to an interesting article, (it's staggering), about a lithium battery charger fire HERE
11th April 2020
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