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Massive Fire at One of World’s Largest Battery Storage Facilities

by Will Jones
17 January 2025 5:00 PM

A massive fire has broken out in one of the world’s largest battery storage facilities containing tens of thousands of lithium batteries, prompting a full scale mobilisation of firefighters across several counties in Northern California. The Independent has the story.

Towering flames were visible from afar as a large black column of smoke rose from the Moss Landing power plant, with the fire showing no signs of easing in the early hours of Friday. It was first reported around 3pm local time.

The 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 and have killed at least 27 people.

The cause of the fire is currently unclear, said a statement from the factory’s owners, Texas-based company Vistra Energy. Around 1,500 people were successfully evacuated from the building, according to the Mercury News. …

Vistra plants also suffered fires in 2021 and 2022 which were caused by a fire sprinkler system malfunction, causing some units to overheat, the Mercury News reported.

Worth reading in full.

Tags: BatteryBattery StorageElectricityEnergy transitionFIRENet Zero

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago

Ah, neo-imperialism rears its ugly head yet again. Blackburn’s copping it too, like Oldham last year. I fear these divisive and discriminatory policies will do a lot of damage. (Wasn’t there concern about a discrimination of sorts in Palestine too?)

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crazypaving
crazypaving
3 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

We came out of restrictions in Oldham on July 4th last year and went back into even tougher ones (banning outdoor contact of any kind) on July 24th. We’ve been in restrictions ever since. Not that anyone cares, the ‘experts’ want us locked up longer and harder. We eventually carried on with our lives, managing to get away in holiday in august to Greece, seeing family but my business is in events so I’ve been excluded from support and unable to work for 16 months. But let’s keep us all locked down because it’s worked so well so far.

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago

It’s a lie if so. Where is the evidence that lockdowns saved thousands of lives, even if we ignore everything else. And by SAGE’s own figures from last July, lockdowns were expected to cost 75,000 lives in non-covid deaths in the UK alone (could this be an underestimate now?)

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago

“The ‘vaccine’ is working”? We’re not even as low as last summer yet. Unless they’re over-counting deaths more now. If they don’t end all restrictions imminently, the “vaccines” haven’t done what was promised. Simple as.
In any case, isn’t PHE’s neutrality compromised by its relationship with the pharmaceutical industry?

Last edited 3 years ago by Hugh
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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

Yes. It’s more Boris Johnson I’m thinking of. “Vaccines and drugs are the way out of this”. They haven’t been yet. And I still see no proper exit plan. Just dissembling, prevarication, procrastination, deferment. What will it take in their world? zero covid? the money running out? revolution? And I don’t trust them not to do this for other bugs, as long as Rasputin is running things.

Last edited 3 years ago by Hugh
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TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
3 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

more a(n experimental) pseudo-vaccine then…

Why have a passport when the vaccine doesn’t actually stop you getting it?

The reasoning behind a lot of the COVIDIOCY doesn’t hold up to scrutiny. “Luckily” the MSM is not there to scrutinise and the past can always be forgotten or changed.

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago

Make any restrictions on care home residents voluntary. Now. Surely a cruel and unusual punishment to forcibly prevent care home residents seeing their loved ones until they are dying.

Stuff the government scumbags – stuff the government filth.

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Annie
Annie
3 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

The cruelty being visited on care home residents is the blackest of the black evils that are being visited upon us. No punishment is too bad for the perpetrators, but ideally they should receive the same treatment. For life. And let that life, or rather barely-living death, be a very long one.

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago
Reply to  Annie

Hmm. Cruel, but probably fair. We can never get back what they’ve taken from us.

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Julian
Julian
3 years ago
Reply to  Annie

Cruel and the victims are exactly the people that all this faux-virtuousness is meant to protect. You may or may not prolong their lives, but you definitely make their final months or years infinitely more miserable, for them and their families. But no-one calls them out on it. Despicable.

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago

So “vaxports” still to be required for sporting events – or will it be like last year’s farce where non-“elite” sport is not included?

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago

What’s going on in Canada? Surely doctors have a duty to tell victims the ingredients of “vaccines”, where they came from, the number of reported and estimated adverse reactions and deaths associated with them, alternatives such as ivermectin, vitamin D etc., the agenda of people pushing them.

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Annie
Annie
3 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

You think doctors have integrity?

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago
Reply to  Annie

Canadian doctors? In any case, the hippocratic oath was effectively lost years ago (and will get worse when old people start getting pressured into being euthanised. As opposed to just taking experimental gene therapy drugs. In winter). And I heard that in recent decades UK doctors have been paid more. For doing less. My main problem though is that they are mostly not nutritionally trained. It seems that the drugs companies call the shots…

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charleyfarley
charleyfarley
3 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

“It seems that the drug companies call the shots.”

Never was a truer word spoken. Why do I feel we are governed by Pfizer et al?

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago

So the MIT team suggested that data should be made more difficult to find because lockdown sceptics were too good at interpreting it? So that’s what we’re up against – very worrying!

Speaking of data, did you notice that big jump in UK deaths three weeks after the first full week of UK “vaccination”? Incompetence, subterfuge or worse to administer these experimental drugs to the most vulnerable at the worst time of year? Now hide that data!

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PoshPanic
PoshPanic
3 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

Some of those supporting citizen science, suddenly don’t think it’s such a good idea, when it can be used to prove them wrong.

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PoshPanic
PoshPanic
3 years ago

A good response to this over at Off-G, for those who haven’t seen it…

https://off-guardian.org/2021/05/13/anthony-fauci-has-no-clue-and-no-authority-to-lecture-on-what-is-good-for-india/

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Annie
Annie
3 years ago

I looked at the Sridhar scaregarbage. Mention of ‘cases’, but not corpses.
On the same page (scroll down) is a link to a story about an Edinburgh mum who died after receiving the snake oil.
Go figure.

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allanplaskett
allanplaskett
3 years ago

Lockdownsceptics continues to run scared of tackling the main vaccine issue. Hancock knew in late December the jabs were killing the frail-elderly and seriously ill. 5,000 excess care-home deaths occurred in Eng&Wales in the 6 weeks from mid December, and another 20,000 in the wider community. These deaths were directly caused by the jabs. Hancock, in late December, slapped an embargo on all post-jab deaths data. Death certificates were forbidden to contain any mention of Cvd vaccination. FOIs requesting simple numbers for post-jab deaths have been blanked by PHE, NHS and ONS. The blackout was rigorously enforced and the death jabbing went on. This was murder, pure and simple, of the very people, – the only people, in fact – who were at any risk from the virus. This murdering, and the cover up of it, was done for money, for protection of the trillion-dollar scam.

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TORs
TORs
3 years ago
Reply to  allanplaskett

Can you tell us more? Links?

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charleyfarley
charleyfarley
3 years ago
Reply to  allanplaskett

If the evidence is there a private prosecution should be brought against Hancock and the others for murder or manslaughter, crowd funded.

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Rick Bradford
Rick Bradford
3 years ago
Reply to  charleyfarley

Nah, just kidnap him and force him into a two-week lockdown in a terraced house in Wigan with Dianne Abbott, nothing to do but watch Channel 4, and he’ll soon change his mind about the whole thing.

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Jaguarpig
Jaguarpig
3 years ago
Reply to  Rick Bradford

Just top him

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RickH
RickH
3 years ago

Looking at this Round Up, what’s striking is the increasing level of absurdity being perpetrated by the Covmaniacs. It’s clear that the significance seekers (like Sridhar) and the power corrupted and big money are desperate to keep the tattered Scary Fairy flying at all costs.

It will be a real test of the levels of stupidity in the community to see how much of the crap is gobbled up as nourishment.

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Noumenon
Noumenon
3 years ago

And you believe them? Sounds almost absurd as the Korean story of Kim-Il-sung only ever scoring holes in one at golf.

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RickH
RickH
3 years ago
Reply to  Noumenon

I tend to your view.

I have come to the conclusion that the UK public – despite all the Battle of Britain / Cradle of Democracy rhetoric – is one of the most gullible and dim populations on the planet.

It may not have always been the case, but it is now.

That said – it’s not ‘the NHS’ that’s the problem, it’s the political manipulation and management of it that feeds off the gullibility.

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TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
3 years ago
Reply to  RickH

Nope the problem IS the NHS.

Bad ideas have bad outcomes and subsidising poor health is probably the worst idea going.

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wesmonty
wesmonty
3 years ago
Reply to  RickH

Possibly but one of the frightening things has been the effectiveness of the government’s propaganda. We’ve been bombarded wherever we go, on TV, the radio, in print, website advertisements and postings on social media, all devised by psychologists and advertisers. It’s a disgrace but I’m not surprised the average Joe has succumbed.

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TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
3 years ago
Reply to  Noumenon

Clapping for your cullers seems akin to thanking the train driver at Auschwitz.

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Noumenon
Noumenon
3 years ago
Reply to  Noumenon

Well quite apart from the veracity of the claim the statement makes no sense anyway as it equivocates between “confidence in the health system” and “how their governments handled the pandemic”, two quite different things.

I really don’t believe anything that “college” says. They are Gates funded and employ Ferguson. It seems like classic propaganda to me, the sort of vacuous statements the Soviets used to put out. They are hardly going to say that the public’s faith it’s shaken are they? And the comparison with foreign countries is classic self-aggrandisement so as to foster that sentiment which feels “things could always be worse, like over in foreignovia”.

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TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
3 years ago

word-meaning inversion seems a common theme amongst those calling themselves progressive…

I tend to find the word “social” now inverts the meaning of the next word.

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Mayo
Mayo
3 years ago

Not sure if any of you watch the Highwire but, if you’ve got a spare hour or two yesterday’s episode is worth a look. The highlight is an interview with Dr Richard Fleming who discusses the gain of function virus research and it s funding, SARS-CoV-2 and vaccines.

He apparently fell foul of the US FDA a few years back but I tend to view that as a positive sign nowadays.

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TheFascistCoronaFraud
TheFascistCoronaFraud
3 years ago

“You are free to do as we tell you! You are free to do as we tell you!”

go back to bed america
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vL8dHf16CEs

Bill Hicks _ Revelations (1992)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkmbIAhoWrQ

Bill Hicks – Rant In E-Minor (1997)[FULL] Comedy Gold
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2awMrjOIzJo

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Fingerache Philip
Fingerache Philip
3 years ago

Shock/horror/panic: In the whole of the West Midlands there have been 30 reported cases of the Indian variant.
WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE,ECT,ETC,ECT,BLAH,BLAH,BLAH, AD INFINITUM.

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Rick Bradford
Rick Bradford
3 years ago

“Some understandable mistakes were made, and comprehensive lessons have been learned to ensure that we will be better prepared next time. Goodnight.”

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caipirinha17
caipirinha17
3 years ago

Anyone want a news related laugh? Here you go.
https://www.lboro.ac.uk/news-events/news/2021/april/public-health-leaders-honoured/

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chris c
chris c
3 years ago

Wasn’t he going to Do Something About Obesity? Principally by employing the same idiots who were in charge of the massive increase in obesity and diabetes and their woeful low fat diet? And he looks to have gotten even fatter himself.

I thought this was hilarious, even more so if you think it is Bozo in bed with Princess Nut Nut (but them I’m easily amused)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_FOS1GvZOY

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