You have to be mad to want one in your home..
I have already experienced a charging lithium battery bursting into flame myself....these batteries are a danger to society, not to mention the environmental damage when producing them..
Aussie Firefighters Warn of Lithium Battery Vehicle Fire Danger Mike Gallagher, CEO of Ports Australia – “You can’t put them out. So you can imagine it on the street if you can’t put them out, imagine them on a vessel out at sea or in a port.”
The ferocity and speed of Lithium fires cannot be overstated, Lithium fires are more like tossing a match in a box of fireworks than a normal fire. The people in the video below were lucky to escape with their lives, there was no time to do anything but flee.VIDEO
Lithium is a powerful psychoactive. In small doses Lithium has therapeutic value in treating manic depressive disorders, but patients on Lithium have to have regular blood tests to minimise the risk of Lithium poisoning. Even at therapeutic doses Lithium can cause a variety of short and (if you are unlucky) long term insidious physiological ailments, including dementia like brain injuries, known as Lithium Neurotoxicity .
Even if firefighters control the blaze and save the house, would you really want to live in a house contaminated by Lithium? Sooner or later insurers will catch on that even if adjacent structures survive the blaze, there is a significant lingering litigation risk from people claiming their health was damaged by exposure to lithium.
Ship transport is the only part of the Lithium risk profile which seems fixable with current technology. The Lithium could be transported in a non-flammable form, such as Lithium carbonate, minimising the risk of fire. Though Lithium carbonate is still a dangerously toxic substance, applying similar protocols to transportation of other toxic substances should suffice for non flammable forms of lithium.
But converting non flammable forms of Lithium into batteries is very energy intensive, it requires lots of cheap energy – something green obsessed Western nations are struggling to provide to industry. So ships and their crews continue to risk their lives transporting unstable forms of Lithium such as finished Lithium batteries, to help green politicians maintain the fiction they are reducing CO2 emissions.
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