Ship abandoned off Alaska after electric cars on board catch fire
I am not up on my sea sailing routes. Why is a ship coming from china which is going to mexico sailing by way of alaska????
Remember exxon valdez? What a mess that was?
A bunch of electric cars sitting on the bottom of the ocean can't be worse than that can it?
How do you fight an electric battery fire? Foam?
A lot of people are familiar with class A (ordinary combustibles), B (burning liquids), and C (electrical) fires. There's a fourth; class D; "special hazard" fire. That's what these are, and they're burning lithium. They're almost impossible to put out. They either burn so hot that they can't be cooled enough, or generate their own oxygen and can't be smothered. Burning magnesium is another one of those. That's why road flares will burn underwater and in the rain. That's why you'll see sailors pushing a burning aircraft off of an aircraft carrier. The magnesium parts on the planes will burn and melt through the decks of the ship! That's also why "mag" wheels were outlawed!
ReplyDelete...I honestly can't believe EV's and their poorer cousins, electric bikes and scooters, are LEGAL! ALL of them are disasters waiting to happen!!!
Sailing by way of Alaska could actually be shorter than sailing a straight line. If you have a globe you can check it out for yourself. Take a piece of string and place one end on China and then place the other end on Mexico and draw it tight. Due to the earth's curvature the shortest route will not be a straight line.
ReplyDeleteYou can't stop a lithium fire, you can only try and keep it from spreading. Just like a magnesium or sodium fire there is no fire triangle to break, excluding oxygen will not put it out.
ReplyDeletePutting out a burning EV is simple, just drop in into a couple of thousand feet of cold seawater, problem solved. Unless you’re a fish.
ReplyDeleteYou can't put out a lithium battery fire....it has to burn itself out. And on a ship that big it could take a while...assuming the ship doesn't sink first.
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