Proteus Jones posted:

General Bullshit › OSHA IV:Surely all those bolts aren't necessary?

McGavin posted:

Most of Darwin's children and many of their descendants went on to have distinguished careers.

His sons, George, Francis, and Horace became Fellows of the Royal Society, distinguished as astronomer, botanist, and civil engineer, respectively. All three were knighted.

Einstein never had any kids with his cousin-wife.

poo poo POST MALONE posted:

Being knighted means absolutely nothing to anyone. Nobody cares.

poo poo POST MALONE posted:

Being knighted means absolutely nothing to anyone. Nobody cares.

McGavin posted:

Most of Darwin's children and many of their descendants went on to have distinguished careers.

His sons, George, Francis, and Horace became Fellows of the Royal Society, distinguished as astronomer, botanist, and civil engineer, respectively. All three were knighted.

Einstein never had any kids with his cousin-wife.

SniperWoreConverse posted:

always has a "the tiger is out yes! yes!" vibe to me, hopefully this one has the righteous fury and wasn't a legit psycho like the original killdozer guy was. that town was hosed up, but the dude was not particularly good.

Duzzy Funlop posted:

Guy is apparently a contractor on that building site (there were no tenants in it apparently as it was recently completed / in completion) and was getting cheated out of his pay, so he figured "lol, how about I build it back then?", and then turned himself into the cops.

CarForumPoster posted:

I care a lot about who is knighted

You’re just mad because you’re a mere scallywag, unfit for the regal title of knight

Duzzy Funlop posted:

Guy is apparently a contractor on that building site (there were no tenants in it apparently as it was recently completed / in completion) and was getting cheated out of his pay, so he figured "lol, how about I build it back then?", and then turned himself into the cops.

Serephina posted:

Perhaps he turned himself in, to the cops? The other meaning is rather funny, however.

Are there other ways of screwing over a non-paying client? Like not doing a few things that ruin any chance of certification, demanding all materials be returned (on their dime), anything?

https://www.theage.com.au/business/the-economy/fire-breaks-out-during-testing-of-victorian-big-battery-near-geelong-20210730-p58eh4.html posted:

Emergency services are warning of toxic smoke after a fire erupted at Victoria’s new Tesla Big Battery, the largest lithium-ion battery in the country.

One of the Tesla megapack batteries at the site in Moorabool, near Geelong, caught fire during testing shortly after 10am on Friday, according to French renewable energy giant Neoen.

“We can confirm that during initial testing today at approximately 10-10.15am a fire occurred within one of the Tesla Megapacks at the Victorian Big Battery,” Neoen Australia managing director Louis de Sambucy said. “No one was injured and the site has been evacuated.”

Emergency services issued a warning for toxic smoke in the nearby Batesford, Bell Post Hill, Lovely Banks and Moorabool areas. Residents were warned to move indoors, close windows, vents and fireplace flues and bring their pets inside.

quote:

Paul McArdle, of energy market consultancy Global Roam, said the first sign of any operations at the big battery was at 6.15pm on Thursday, with 25 megawatts of charging.

“It only started operating under 24 hours ago,” he said. “It’s not been a great start.”

monolithburger posted:

monolithburger posted:

Platystemon posted:

Yeah, that’s not very typical. I’d like to make that point.

Boiled Water posted:

[Senator Collins:] It’s a great pleasure, thank you.

[Interviewer:] This Tesla Megapack that was involved in the incident in Moorabool this week…

[Senator Collins:] Yeah, the one on fire?

[Interviewer:] Yeah

[Senator Collins:] That’s not very typical, I’d like to make that point.

[Interviewer:] Well, how is it untypical?

[Senator Collins:] Well, there are a lot of these battery packs being built around the world all the time, and very seldom does anything like this happen … I just don’t want people thinking that Tesla Megabatteries aren’t safe.

[Interviewer:] Was this battery safe?

[Senator Collins:] Well I was thinking more about the other ones…

[Interviewer:] The ones that are safe,,,

[Senator Collins:] Yeah,,, the ones aren't on fire.

[Interviewer:] Well, if this wasn’t safe, why did it have 80,000 MAmps of electricity in it?

[Senator Collins:] Well, I’m not saying it wasn’t safe, it’s just perhaps not quite as safe as some of the other ones.

[Interviewer:] Why?

[Senator Collins:] Well, some of them are built so they don't catch fire at all.

[Interviewer:] Wasn’t this built so it wouldn't catch fire?

[Senator Collins:] Well, obviously not.

[Interviewer:] “How do you know?”

[Senator Collins:] Well, ‘cause it caught fire, and 20,000 square meters of brush land caught fire. It’s a bit of a give-away.” I would just like to make the point that that is not normal.

[Interviewer:] Well, what sort of standards are these batteries built to?

[Senator Collins:] Oh, very rigorous … electrical engineering standards.

[Interviewer:] What sort of things?

[Senator Collins:] Well it's not supposed to catch fire, for a start.

[Interviewer:] And what other things?

[Senator Collins:] Well, there are … regulations governing the materials they can be made of

[Interviewer:] What materials?

[Senator Collins:] Well, Aluminium Foams’s out

[Interviewer:] And?

[Senator Collins:] …No combustible aluminium derivatives…

[Interviewer:] Like combustible aluminium cladding?

[Senator Collins:]. … No combustible aluminium cladding, no aluminium foam, no plates of aluminium. …

[Interviewer:] Magnesium?

[Senator Collins:] No, magnesium’s out .. Um, They’ve got to have a fire alarm. There’s a minimum fire suppression crew requirement.”

[Interviewer:] What’s the minimum crew?

[Senator Collins:] Oh,… one, I suppose.

[Interviewer:] So, the allegations that they are just designed to be built as quickly as possible to milk taxpayers and to hell with the consequences, I mean that’s ludicrous…

[Senator Collins:] Ludicrous, absolutely ludicrous. These are very, very strong batteries

[Interviewer:] So what happened in this case?

[Senator Collins:] Well, it caught on fire in this case by all means, but that’s very unusual.

[Interviewer:] But Senator Collins, why did it catch fire?

[Senator Collins:] Well, a droplet hit it.

[Interviewer:] A droplet hit it?

[Senator Collins:] A rain droplet hit the battery.

[Interviewer:] Is that unusual?

[Senator Collins:] Oh, yeah… In Victoria? …Chance in a million.

[Interviewer:] So what do you do to protect the environment in cases like this?

[Senator Collins:] Well, the battery was built outside the environment.

[Interviewer:] Into another environment….

[Senator Collins:] No, no, no. it’s been built beyond the environment, it’s not in the environment

[Interviewer:] Yeah, but from one environment to another environment.

[Senator Collins:] No, it’s beyond the environment, it’s not in an environment. It has been built beyond the environment.

[Interviewer:] Well, what’s out there?

[Senator Collins:] Nothing’s out there…

[Interviewer:] Well there must be something out there

[Senator Collins:] There is nothing out there… all there is …. is brush land …and birds ….and mammals

[Interviewer:] And?

[Senator Collins:] And 20,000 tons of Bolivian lithium

[Interviewer:] And what else?

[Senator Collins:] And a fire

[Interviewer:] And anything else?

[Senator Collins:] And the part of the battery that caught on fire, but there’s nothing else out there.

[Interviewer:] Senator Collins thanks for joining us.

[Senator Collins:] It’s a complete void

[Interviewer:] Yeah, We’re out time

[Senator Collins:] The environment’s perfectly safe. …. We’re out of time?.. Can you book me a cab?

[Interviewer:] But didn’t you come in a Tesla?

[Senator Collins:] Yes, I did, but

[Interviewer:] What happened?

[Senator Collins:] Caught on fire

monolithburger posted:

Humphreys posted:

That particular setup is something we chat about at work. Every now and then we have discussed how best to mitigate fires like that. I'm still trying to make my brain work properly in designing a system to rapidly isolate a container but always come back to a gantry system with a big crucible inverted to cover/isolate the container on fire, then pump in CO2, ABC dry chemical, powdered graphite, copper powder, or sodium carbonate.

Boiled Water posted:

down1nit posted:

Re: Tesla battery pack... Gonna wait to judge that one. Wonder what screwed it over?

My bet is on electricity.... Somehow.

monolithburger posted:

This is champagne posting and also reminds me that I need to watch The Games again.

Jabor posted:

Now what if two of them catch on fire?

Jack-Off Lantern posted:

How about a trap doors under each block that drops them into an extinguishing agent?

Lower the battery, if you will.

champagne posting posted:

champagne posting posted:

I was looking for a new username and well, there it was

monolithburger posted:

https://youtu.be/kyDJl9lO89A

crusty posted:

I'm assuming I'm old and confused...

Humphreys posted:

Now that is just silly, too simple and not enough moving parts...but now that you mention Z axis isolation maybe the answer is UP? Tesla rockets!

champagne posting posted:

Jack-Off Lantern posted:

How about a trap doors under each block that drops them into an extinguishing agent?

Lower the battery, if you will.

Jack-Off Lantern posted:

How about a trap doors under each block that drops them into an extinguishing agent?

Lower the battery, if you will.

CommieGIR posted:

Duzzy Funlop posted:

WE'VE GOT A KILLDOZEREXCAVATOR-ALERT IN DEUTSCHISTAN

https://twitter.com/LONE81/status/1420491401981308932

Pile Of Garbage posted:

This is was from a couple of pages back but someone gave me a heads-up via DM on Twitter, that @LONE81 guy is a turbo-racist and big-time fascist so you might not want to RT them.

Pile Of Garbage posted:

This is was from a couple of pages back but someone gave me a heads-up via DM on Twitter, that @LONE81 guy is a turbo-racist and big-time fascist so you might not want to RT them.