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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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Lockdown Sceptic
Lockdown Sceptic
2 years ago

Parliament is going to debate the petition you signed –

“Open a Public Inquiry into Covid-19 Vaccine Safety”.
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/602171
The debate is scheduled for 19 September 2022.
Once the debate has happened, we’ll email you a video and transcript.

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Last edited 2 years ago by Lockdown Sceptic
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JohnK
JohnK
2 years ago
Reply to  Lockdown Sceptic

19/11? Who will the dictator be then? Ask a bookmaker.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
2 years ago
Reply to  JohnK

Could you elucidate please?

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BurlingtonBertie
BurlingtonBertie
2 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

New PM will be in post by then…

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
2 years ago
Reply to  BurlingtonBertie

Thank you.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
2 years ago

“Protect children from harmful internet content without overregulating the free press” – The Telegraph in a leading article says the Online Safety Bill needs to be amended to restore its original worthy purpose.

Well, isn’t that really the job of parents?

Anyway, worthy or not, that’s the ostensible purpose, not necessarily the true one.

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Nobody2022
Nobody2022
2 years ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

Do people even identify as parents these days? I thought that role was being taken by teachers and other professions.

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RW
RW
2 years ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

As there’s no certain way to determine who is or isn’t legally a minor online, protecting children from harmful internet content requires treating every users as child by default: Whatever the government designates as harmful to children will be have to be banned for everyone for the general case.

Last edited 2 years ago by RW
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thefoostybadger
thefoostybadger
2 years ago

Meanwhile, in proper news..

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-62149521

Sheep people quite happy to gobble up this kind of shite whilst the world is on the brink of catastrophic numbers of vaccine deaths and disintegration of services and the economy.

Nothing to see in that respect though folks, here’s a story about someone that had Star Wars figures on her wedding cake and likes to be referred to as zie/zir.

MSM, go **** yourselves.

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crisisgarden
crisisgarden
2 years ago
Reply to  thefoostybadger

Seconded.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
2 years ago
Reply to  thefoostybadger

Seconded.

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ebygum
ebygum
2 years ago

If you didn’t catch it on GB News last night….Mark Steyn …Victims of the Vax.

https://www.bitchute.com/video/0itukLiCaLzr/

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ebygum
ebygum
2 years ago

https://www.politicshome.com/news/article/governments-flagship-online-safety-bill-has-been-dropped-from-commons-business

The government’s flagship Online Safety Bill is set to be dropped from Commons business next week with a view for it to return to the Commons “in the autumn”.

PoliticsHome understands that the Bill was removed from the government’s agenda to make space for a motion of no confidence in the governmen due to be put to the House on Monday.

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BurlingtonBertie
BurlingtonBertie
2 years ago
Reply to  ebygum

What a shame, need to keep up the pressure to bin it completely. though if not brought in, the next WEF stooge will be removed until one pushes it through for the WEF

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Nobody2022
Nobody2022
2 years ago
  • “New Zealand to announce new Covid restrictions” – Kiwis could be in for stricter Covid restrictions and will get more free masks and tests as the country battles an outbreak that is seeing 11,000 new cases in the community a day, reports the Mail.

Everyone’s getting it so they need to waste money on free tests to confirm that everyone’s getting it. Genius.

It was generally accepted prior to 2019 that mass testing was useless once a virus becomes widespread because you can’t detect it fast enough, i.e. once you detect one person it’s already spread to multiple other people.

And once it’s below a certain level, mass testing means that most of your tests will be pointless.

But let’s do it anyway for a laugh.

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JohnK
JohnK
2 years ago
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And some are making a profit, selling useless junk.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
2 years ago

“Is the fifth Covid wave already peaking? Virus NHS admissions and cases slow despite calls for masks and social distancing to return – as deaths creep up by just six per day.”

How on earth did I miss the first four?

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