Battery Buffs go to Blazes - Quadrant Online
'Lithium-ion batteries are the critical pillar in a fossil fuel-free economy,' says the UN. The New York Fire Department sees them in a different light -- that of sudden and lethal home-consuming infernos. 'So far this year, ' Gotham's hook-and-ladder men report, '18 people have been killed by fires caused by lithium-ion batteries'. What, one wonders, are the carbon emissions of a smouldering corpse?
Source: quadrant.org.au
