Kim du Toit pointed to a PJMedia story covering something I read about perhaps elsewhere last week: Cargo Ship Carrying 3,000 Vehicles, Including 800 EVs, Burning Out of Control Off the Coast of Alaska
One of the Ace of Spades HQ co-bloggers–I think it’s Buck Throckmorton–regularly publishes stories not only arguing that EVs are a business boondoggle but also dangerous, and he highlights stories of cargo ships catching fire and parking garages catching fire and what a calamity these isolated instances are.
And then I, of course, remember the Israeli pager escapade (Operation Grim Beeper), where the Israelis had spent a decade or so infiltrating walkie-talkies laden with explosives and then pagers laden with explosives into its enemy’s communications network and then set them off to best effect. With but mere explosives.
Now: Look around you at the number of lithium-ion rechargeable batteries in your house or in your garage. Laptops. Power tools. Rechargeable gadgets. How many of those batteries were made in a nation whose interests run counter to our nation’s? What would happen if they had a trigger circuit that caused an overload and all of them, nationwide, burst into flames?
We were discussing this a bit on the way to the church picnic yesterday. Also, in the event of an imminent attack, would it be preferable for protective EMP detonations to only fry all electronics nationwide without damn near every building burning down as well?
Oh, the things I think about when not reading lurid paperbacks for escape.
UPDATE: It is Buck Throckmorton, and he posted about this drifting inferno this morning after my post appeared.
