Solar Farm Batteries Could Explode with Force of Atom Bomb

[Save Our Farmland]

"The proposed Cleve Hill Solar Park near Faversham, England would house one million solar panels taking up an estimated 900 acres of land. The battery facility alone would cover 25 acres and would contain lithium batteries that campaigners fear would be vulnerable to fire, and could explode, devastating the surrounding area as well as releasing toxic chemicals into the air.

“An explosion would have the energy of a small nuclear bomb. Lithium-ion batteries have a history of spontaneous fires that cannot be put out with water and can throw flames 70ft high,” the group added.

Dr Erasin, an expert in biochemical engineering, warned that if a fire should occur at the power storage facility, it could send toxic hydrogen fluoride gas as far as six miles around the site, as well as pointing to the history of lithium batteries catching fire.

“In 2018 AIG Energy Industry Group reviewed lithium-ion battery energy storage systems and commented that ‘battery fires are often very intense and difficult to control. They can take days or even weeks to extinguish properly'”, Erasin warned."

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