Airstrip One NewsBreaking news: a fire at a giant solar farm in East Anglia is raging out of control after a lithium-ion battery is believed to have failed, causing an explosion. Two nearby villages were evacuated last night as toxic gases, vapours and particulates filled the air.
with extremely hazardous lung irritant. Lithium battery fires also emit hazardous pollutants like hydrogen fluoride which causes serious burns.
Scientists say there is virtually no way to put out a lithium-battery fire. The advice is to “let it burn” or to try and use huge volumes of water to cool the surrounding modules. Fire officers, who had objected to the 2,500-acre solar farm on safety grounds, indicated that the latter course was extremely problematic because they did not have access to that much water on site.
One angry local campaigner said yesterday that the dangers of lithium-ion batteries had failed to be communicated to the public.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/10/01/ed-milibands-net-zero-dream-will-destroy-britain/
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