Live updates: Brush fire burns in Pacific Palisades as Santa Ana winds blast Southern California - Live video at link

Betonhaus said:
The batteries are perfectly fine, it's just pure coincidence that the heat spot seems to be directly overtop where the batteries are installed with no known unrelated fuel sources.
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He's not saying there's no fire, but that's it's not Tesla shit on fire. Which appears to be true, the stuff in the turbine hall is from LG.
 
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Fuck Bankers said:

David Lynch RIP​

David Lynch, Creator of Twin Peaks, Eraserhead, Dune (1984), Mulholland Drive, and Inland Empire deceased at 78. The world is a worse place without him.

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I know I'm late, I wanted to archive this video, and I felt this was the best place. The beginning is funny; the ending really shows why many people loved him.
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I'm curious about what thread you think you posted this in.
 
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FatalTater said:
I think everyone needs to learn how to build air filter systems.
May I offer you some instructions in these trying times?
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Hilarious to me two professors took it upon themselves to act like they invented strapping off the shelf filters and a fan together during covid lockdowns. No, it's not called a Corsi-Rosenthal cube lmao. There is zero fucking way nobody was doing this before covid, it's simply the cheapest and simplest way to build an air filter unit.
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In the battery fire news, Monterey county officials came together for a press conference on it. It was still burning, though dying down, as of five hours ago.
Of course, they say they're going to hold people accountable for it, being the fourth fucking fire at the battery site(s) since they opened. Fourth time's the charm, you know. Before that, they sperged about green energy and why they put a bunch of toxic chemicals in a tinderbox in the middle of an ecological area. Because the infrastructure was already there to build on. But they don't really give a reason for why they wouldn't have shut the operation down after it's continual, numerous incidents. They say they'll make more laws to ensure they can do something, lmao.
 
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David Brown said:
Frequent power outages are considered a "small thing"??? No way, is California really that level of third world bullshit? Forgive my naivety if it's really that bad.
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Power outages like that typically happen in far away, rural areas like Jefferson. The closer to a suburb, outages don't happen often.
 
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SO i ahve given careful consideration of the problems of the california fire and i have come up with the solution

i illustarted as to aid in undertading

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IMAGE A we can see the root of the problem the fireman had NO WATER to fight the fire because the water reservour was empty

so i came up with this eschematic

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By following my plan of action the fireman will not need to to wait for the rain to fill up the resevoir but all they need to do is to take water direclty from the rain to pull out the fire thus saving time in the process


before spreading it i would like to announce this idea is copyrighted as of now so if you spread it around i want my share
 
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1Tonka_Truck said:
Once cells in a battery pack begin rupturing, the fire becomes self-oxidizing. Firefighting foam does nothing to an EV fire. The only way the fire stops is when cells stop rupturing. The enclosures for these grid batteries should probably be designed to be flooded like the dunk tanks towing companies have started buying for storing at-risk EVs.
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As I understand, this is about the only way to put out a lithium-ion battery fire: dunk it in a massive water tank, and hope the mass of the water can absorb enough heat that temperatures go back below the auto-ignition threshold. Water does an excellent job of absorbing heat, but with the amount of energy in lithium-ion batteries, it will still take a lot of water.

The envirotarded groups in California would probably try to block this, on the justification that immersing a burning lithium iron battery pack in water will cause the water to be contaminated with toxic chemicals, which now have to be safely processed and disposed of. This of course, glosses over the fact that by letting the batteries continue to burn, all those toxic chemicals become airborne and end up in the local atmosphere, and then surrounding soil and waterways when rain eventually passes through, causing even more widespread environmental damage
 
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Can of Ship said:
I'd say it's still burning on the outside.
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I don't see how the batteries weren't already burning, seeing it's been cooking steady since yesterday, and fire crews didn't even want to touch it. Why would that be the case if it were just a structure fire?
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I honestly think every single "environmentlly friendly" policy California has had has been offset by now.
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The truth is, it was never actually about the environment and if anything they've done several times the harm they would've done if they hadn't started implementing their dumbass policies, barring basic shit like smog prevention through filtration, car addons like catalytic converters. Most of what they've done since then is just pants on head retarded, if not outright malicious.
 
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Time for an LA fire containment update courtesy of Watch Duty
  • Eaton Fire: 65% contained as of this morning
  • Palisades Fire: 31% contained as of this morning
  • Hurst Fire: Inactive as Thursday night
For those wondering why it's taking so long for these fires to be contained it's more than likely due to the size of the fire perimeter and the terrain. The upside is that they're allowing more people to return to their homes (or what remains of it) now that they're getting a handle on 'em.
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Hilarious to me two professors took it upon themselves to act like they invented strapping off the shelf filters and a fan together during covid lockdowns. No, it's not called a Corsi-Rosenthal cube lmao. There is zero fucking way nobody was doing this before covid, it's simply the cheapest and simplest way to build an air filter unit.
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In the battery fire news, Monterey county officials came together for a press conference on it. It was still burning, though dying down, as of five hours ago.
Of course, they say they're going to hold people accountable for it, being the fourth fucking fire at the battery site(s) since they opened. Fourth time's the charm, you know. Before that, they sperged about green energy and why they put a bunch of toxic chemicals in a tinderbox in the middle of an ecological area. Because the infrastructure was already there to build on. But they don't really give a reason for why they wouldn't have shut the operation down after it's continual, numerous incidents. They say they'll make more laws to ensure they can do something, lmao.
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Thankfully I managed to find some MERV 13 air filters for our HVAC system when the smoke was visible in the LA skyline, I actually noticed that the family's coughing less now when they're indoors.
 
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Toolbox said:
I don't see how the batteries weren't already burning, seeing it's been cooking steady since yesterday, and fire crews didn't even want to touch it. Why would that be the case if it were just a structure fire?
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Iirc the outer shell is made out of mix between steel and aluminium. The aluminium might have melted, but the steel could withstand 2500F while structural fires usually reach 2000F. Or I might be a retard, and if that was the case, disregard.
 
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There's one Dem representative who dropped a new conspiracy theory about these fires.

A Democratic member of Congress has offered a new conspiracy theory concerning the wildfires around Los Angeles.

During a Tuesday interview, Democratic Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove of California suggested race might have been a factor, according to Fox News.

“We need to find out the facts — a full-scale investigation on what went wrong. I and the CBC, the Congressional Black Caucus, for example, are curious about who decided to sacrifice Altadena, a historically Black community in the L.A. County area,” she said.
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The 2020 United States census reported that Altadena had a population of 42,846. The racial makeup of Altadena in the year 2020 was (53.2%) White (41.2% Non-Hispanic White), (19.7%) African American, (0.6%) Native American, (5.2%) Asian, (0.1%) Pacific Islander, and (6.9%) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino residents of any race were 29.5% of the population.
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I'm not even going to bother pointing out the demographics of Pacific Palisades.
 
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