FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 days ago'It doesn’t catch fire': Why China’s "fireproof" sodium battery could be the breakthrough that makes EVs safer than ICE carswww.techradar.comexternal-linkmessage-square15linkfedilinkarrow-up1187arrow-down15file-textcross-posted to: world@lemmy.worldtechnology@lemmy.worldelectricvehicles@slrpnk.netcars@lemmy.world
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minus-squareJhex@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up28arrow-down3·5 days agoBuddy, gasoline fires cannot be put out with water either, Firefighters are trained to just contain them… basically same situation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_1QoDUUFH0
minus-squareSupraMario@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down1·4 days agoYea…they can, the video you posted even talkes about how they would put it out. You starve it of oxygen and cool the fuel down to pre-ignition temps.
minus-squareJhex@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·4 days agoyou can’t do what they displayed on the vid with a size car fire… they do contain them more easily though
Buddy, gasoline fires cannot be put out with water either, Firefighters are trained to just contain them… basically same situation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_1QoDUUFH0
Yea…they can, the video you posted even talkes about how they would put it out. You starve it of oxygen and cool the fuel down to pre-ignition temps.
you can’t do what they displayed on the vid with a size car fire… they do contain them more easily though