Nope. The moment you stop flooding it with water, it starts burning back again. Lithium reacts with water producing heat and hydrogen. Spraying the surface with hose just doesn’t work. You have to drop car into a water tank for prolonged period of time. Long enough for water to reach all damaged cells and react with all exposed lithium

The only way I know how to reliably extinguish a lithium car battery fire, is to throw the whole car into a water tank

Is this really a capitalism thing?

Well, anonymous chatbot won’t cancel you and it won ruin your life out of pure spite.

No wonder this is a thing

No, by design, you have as close as possible to raw metal on one of the electrodes when battery is fully charged. That’s the chemistry behind it - its moving metal between oxidation states. When it burns down, it also moves to higher oxidation states. Volatility is baked in. Usually you have lithium in carbon matrix that acts as physical sponge. But that’s just raw lithium in a sponge. It will still burn like hell.

Not as rapidly as lithium batteries. From firefighting perspective this is much uglier case. Bonus issue: unlike gasoline, you can’t extinguish it reliably - it has to burn out on its own

Very relevant for firefighters who have to deal with lithium and sodium fires.

BTW: Explosion in case of lithium is indirect since you need a hydrogen buildup first. In case of sodium plus water it goes boom almost instantly

Except the fact that batteries burn extremely rapidly. In case of fire you have seconds to open the door and help the driver/passaners escape out of the vehicle

Except ones with no handles. You’re supposed to burn alive in these.

Technically correct.

Sodium blows up when exposed to water.

It is if you want to move drive between windows and Linux machines

Another reason to install Linux and be done with this shit.

I recommend starting with Fedora KDE, and delving to anything else later…

It leaks private data, like it’s own source

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/01/anthropic-claudes-code-leaks-ai

Not because it’s so smart, but because it’s so fucking stupid, and morons from Anthropic just click buttons without checking.

I don’t see any ads. Grayjay goes brrr!

You can’t spell All without AI

You don’t. It’s okay to have less than 1:1 if there’s a lot of seeds. If you are super early after release tho, it’s nice if you keep it up for few hours

I used Ubuntu in the past (2016-2018) and I’d rather go back to Windows then use that piece of shit ever again

I don’t use free VPNs

having been part of the Windows team since 1/1/2013

If he worked on Windows 11 he’s the part of the problem.

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April fools was three days ago