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I CAN SEE INTO THE FUTURE ...
‘It Was An Inferno. Before I Realised
What Was Happening,
The Whole Wall Went Up’
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 infalible, (just like the Titanic). But what happens an iceburg comes along in the form of a house fire caused by some other reason, such as a wildfire (US) 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 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 the house on fire. The ejection handle, (there could be multiple handles), would be far enough away from the battery 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 joke.
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