There are some lessons to be learned here, but we’ve become so dependent on these things so quickly that I’m not sure what we pivot to.
I think probably breathing deeply and figuring out how to deal with the problems we have on our hands right now would be a good thing before we proceed any further into this brave, new, all-electric mandated world, no?
What am I talking about?
Lithium-ion batteries (LIB) going boom in the worst places and what to do when that happens.
On Thursday, the 26th of September, on the freeway outside of the Port of Los Angeles in San Pedro, California, one of “those accidents” happened.
A tractor-trailer carrying large lithium-ion batteries overturned and caught on fire on a highway near the Port of Los Angeles on Thursday, snarling traffic and leading to road closures and the shuttering of several terminals at the port.
The Los Angeles Fire Department said in…