Vistra Corp's 3000-megawatt Moss Landing energy storage facility went up in flames on Thursday, in a blaze that is expected to remain contained to the building. "There are no active fire suppression efforts going on, as the best approach, according to fire staff, is to allow the building and batteries to burn," according to a Monterey Sheriff official. Both Vistra and the county official said that all site personnel had been evacuated and no injuries were reported.

Yeah, I think massive chemical batteries for storing excess electricity to facilitate a contrived green energy market is a bad idea.

  • YggstyleEnglish
    2•5 hours ago

    Find an engineer or an engineering channel to better understand the grid. Energy generation - clean or otherwise - has to be adjusted in realtime… further: the above statement doesn’t clearly understand or solve for over generation vs under generation. There’s a fix: a reservoir. In other words: storage. This (storage) is present everywhere from the grid to almost literally every circuit board.

    You’re picking a fight with batteries/energy storage - then making an argument about something unrelated. “Storing cooked beef sure is hard” is not properly solved with “the store stocking more beef.” They are tangentially related… but not the same thing.

    edit: clarity / punctuation

    • @[email protected]English
      2•2 hours ago

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7G4ipM2qjfw

      OP is… trying his best, I guess. For now lipo is the best solution. Actually multiple things are the solution. Pumped water has a delay that needs to be covered by something else. Flywheels have mechanical chalenges. Molten salt also has problems. Etc. They all compliment each other. IMO best single solution would be nuclear. Salt will be better then lithium, but in some years.

      When batteries (ahcually accumulators, but whatever) are done properly, the fires should not go beyond one cell, if at all.

      PS Gravity, except pumped water, is hilariously bad.

      • YggstyleEnglish
        1•15 minutes ago

        OP is… trying his best, I guess.

        I commend your faith in … ehm… the human spirit we’ll say.

        PS Gravity, except pumped water, is hilariously bad.

        Keenly aware. I got a good laugh out of it when I saw it mentioned.

        Practical Engineering is great. He does a fantastic job of explaining things simply and frequently provides models to demonstrate things.

        100% on the combination of things statement. Many different storage mediums have different advantages and disadvantages. The right tool for the right job. Flawed though it is I always loved reading about molten salt… It just seemed like such a metal way to store energy. 😂

        Realistically - I don’t mind people being incorrect or even just leaning into their particular beliefs or preferences… but OP emphatically stating incorrect information and then arguing as people corrected him was irritating.