On the news they were talking about Tesla battery fires being really hard to put out. I thought, why couldn’t you just slide a fireproof fabric of some kind under the burning Tesla. Pull that sucker up, and vacuum seal it.
Basically, why aren’t fires put out more often by cutting off oxygen? It seems like the most effective way as opposed to dousing it with water or sand.
In: Physics
they don’t need oxygen from the air. the battery has oxides in its construction that decompose into usable oxygen for a fire.
that said, fire blankets do exist and are used. this does little to extinguish a battery fire, but dramatically reduces the damage it can do to its surroundings and gives first responders more ways to deal with it.
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