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Also I have caused fire a car fire, with no engine nor fuel/fuel tanks or liquids. Tho enough of the interior was flammable that once we noticed it was too late to stop with extinguishers.

Thanks for that clarification.

So Tory plant? Bizarre that she duped her way through the selection process then.

I (maybe not so clearly) don't buy some of her story though and should separate the Patrick Grady thing.

I must admit the whole concept of welcoming someone from across the floor with open arms rather sums up how ridiculous the whole thing is. Up til last week, they were probably openly calling each other cunts and now they're best pals... Or rather that's what they announce, expecting someone/anyone to believe it.

Ecclestone

British prisons are full, so he probably realised now was exactly the right time to plead guilty as even if in the unlikely scenario that he got a jail sentence, he'd not be able to serve it.

Seventeen months suspended for two years.
Does that mean he can do it again after two years?

If you wanted to make cars that absolutely weren't a fire risk then you're going to have a tough time finding a dense energy source that can't catch fire. Lithium batteries, petrol and diesel all like to get very hot and burn.

It's the extinguishing of the fire that is the problem
Four weeks after

Unlikely it was "burning" for 4 weeks. More than likely they ruptured something whilst moving that particular vehicle which set it off again, and so the best way of ensuring it doesn't go up is to get it out quickly and into the dump tank.

Then again if it wasn't burning then sticking Lithium in water will cause it to catch fire.

The point of a dump tank is that a lithium fire in water is much more controlled than a lithium fire outside water. If it's going to burn, better have it burn surrounded by water.

With everything going on in the world, seems to have slipped under the radar that NATO have made a statement about the damage to the pipe between Finland and Estonia.

If found to be Russian sabotage, there will be a 'response'. Do they mean a military response?

It’ll just be minuted at the next meeting that Putin is a naughty boy.

I'm curious. EV fires seem to be 'a thing'.

Not really, according to this article (Google translate) based on Norwegian statistics.

I've done a rough screenshot edit/translation of the graph too. Note that 20% of cars in Norway are electric.

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WTF?!

Hug your baby and stand with us as we kill Palestinian children (500 so far as of yesterday).

EV as original ignition source would make sense, it's hard to get a diesel fire going but once it does...

Clues in the name innit - opposite of an ICE in an external combustion engine.
#EVscantmeltsteelbeams

sick of my govt... so I made a petition... I need co-sponsors, i.e. at least 5 people to sign it, I was even willing to put my effing name on it:

I’ve made a petition – will you sign it?

Click this link to sign the petition:
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/648746/

My petition:

Do not participate, or otherwise support, the ethnic cleansing of Palestine

The UK Gov should take strong steps to ensure that the UK is not complicit in ethnic cleansing by participating or support the siege and blockade of Palestine, or contributing any military assistance or weapons that further the crisis, instead we should actively provide humanitarian assistance.

Hamas is a terrorist organisation that represents a tiny minority of the people of Palestine. Yet the people of Palestine are subject to a siege by one of the most militarily capable nations on Earth. This is a humanitarian crisis where people lack food, shelter, energy, and medical equipment. Israel has take a position that historically indicates that they will expand territory and cause great suffering, many will die and the UK should avoid getting blood on our collective hands.

Signed.

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Done

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Disappointed you couldn't just find a way for one sponsor to sign it five times.

Signed anyway.

thanks all... the threshold for it being made public is met, it's now subject to a review... so I've withdrawn the sponsor link.

I hope this gets the exposure and signatures it deserves.
The petition to unban Bully XLs is the 7th most signed petition ever, which makes me question people's priorties...