Fire Chief Joel Mendoza of the North County Fire District said at this point, most of the fire had gone out. A water-based mitigation system did not work as designed, Vistra's senior director of community affairs Brad Watson said at the conference. Earlier in the day, a Monterey Sheriff official had said there were no active fire suppression efforts going on, "as the best approach, according to fire staff, is to allow the building and batteries to burn."

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

  • Mihies@programming.devEnglish
    91·
    7 天前

    No, it’s not, at least not at scale, because you need specific geography and plenty of water. Why do you think we are not massively using it?

    • tehWrapper@lemmy.worldEnglish
      31·
      7 天前

      Can prob dig a whole system the same as they did to get all the materials for this mess.

      The water would also not be useless like all the water used to process the battery materials.