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A ship burns for a month before sinking into the ocean with 4000 automobiles. All in the name of saving the environment. From carbon dioxide.

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I have to rewatch "Dumb and Dumber" just to keep my sanity

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Over the years I have spent at the track I have seen a lot of fires, brake fires, oil fires, nitro-methane fires, you get the picture. But I have never seen a fire you cannot put put out.

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Magnesium will do it. Back when the F-14 was still doing carrier duty, if one caught on fire, doctrine was to just push it overboard so it wouldn't burn through the flight deck. They'd continue burning even underwater.

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I've never seen a tornado either yet I read about the devastation they cause on a routine basis. I have absolutely NO desire to ever see one for real in what remains of my lifetime. I will say the same goes for being within visual proximity to a fire that cannot be extinguished.

Tornados are natural weather phenomenon of course, while lithium batteries are an entirely man-made product that are becoming all too numerous in my daily surroundings.

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That is the Green Revolution for you! Bringing you whole new experiences like unextinguishable fires!

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Not sure what you're saying - that you're not believing the story; or that EV battery fires are truly in a case by themselves- kind of a new experience for us and for firemen.

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Not at all my friend, it's a matter of time before someone brings one of thise to a track day. As soon as they have an off and rupture the battery pack, game on.

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That'll be quite the drama, most likely at a California track

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This ship fire was a couple years ago? I sure haven't heard much about it - thanks for writing about it. I had heard of a couple lithium battery fires on ships, but not one that had actually caused a sinking. What an economical tragedy. Glad all crew were saved, or it would have been worse than economic.

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Duuuuuuude. (Is there a German equivalent word for "duuuuuuuuuuuude"?)

I mourn the loss of all those beautiful, wonderful, human works of art, those magical gasoline powered automobiles that would have brought so many smiles to so many professional middle-aged men suffering through their late midlife crises. What a tragedy. Stupid EV nonsense.

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