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Jan 3, 2022 at 11:11 AM | Registered Commentertomo"

Need I say more!

We had the Morris Minor......now the Tesla Miner!

tomo: I've read comments to the effect that Norway has imported European power prices as a consequence of the growing export market.

I was surprised that the BBC carried this comment as part of an article on cost increases:
"Imagine you've just bought 68 new buses, powered by electric battery. Helped by a wadge of public cash, you wire up your bus depots with chargers.
Then the price of electricity goes through the roof, and it turns out that the best business option is to fire them up with power from a diesel-fuelled generator.
It's not quite the clean, green future of public transport that we were sold last year at COP26, as big government grants went into renewing bus fleets with batteries.
But that's how energy prices are up-ending parts of the economy.
The scenario of battery buses powered, albeit indirectly, by dirty diesel has been briefly explored by the chief executive of McGill's Buses.Ralph Roberts tweeted that the procurement team at the Inverclyde-based bus operator had run the numbers on the £624,000 increase in its energy bill.
"They are advising that we charge our zero emission buses by diesel generators," he wrote.

Seems that transporting EV vehicles by sea is dangerous

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/02/18/was-the-felicity-ace-fire-caused-by-electric-vehicle-batteries/

Cause currently unknown but regardless of the source once it got going the EV cars inside have ensured its burning on every deck from stem to stern 5m above the waterine.

“The ship is burning from one end to the other… everything is on fire about five meters above the water line,” Cabecas said.

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Read more: https://gcaptain.com/felicity-ace-car-carrier-continues-to-burn-in-mid-atlantic/

MikeHIg

- looks like the goons in HM Treasury HMRC have thought about that

Red diesel being attacked ....

Interesting paper on battery combustion:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC55772...

If I am reading it correctly, the energy released in combustion varies greatly with different types of cell. It ranges from 5 to 20 times the electrical capacity (Figure 2b). Temperatures can reach 800 deg C.

The main focus is on the toxic gases:
"The amounts of HF released from burning Li-ion batteries are presented as mg/Wh. If extrapolated for large battery packs the amounts would be 2–20 kg for a 100 kWh battery system, e.g. an electric vehicle and 20–200 kg for a 1000 kWh battery system, e.g. a small stationary energy storage. The immediate dangerous to life or health (IDLH) level for HF is 0.025 g/m3 (30 ppm)22 and the lethal 10 minutes HF toxicity value (AEGL-3) is 0.0139 g/m3 (170 ppm)23. The release of hydrogen fluoride from a Li-ion battery fire can therefore be a severe risk and an even greater risk in confined or semi-confined spaces."