Plano ambicioso de construção de um colossal banco de energia com baterias gigantes de lítio nos telhados de edifícios aterroriza moradores dos Estados Unidos por risco de explosão

Ambitious Plan to Build a Colossal Energy Storage System with Gigantic Lithium Batteries on Rooftops Terrifies Residents in the United States Due to Explosion Risk

Written by Flavia Marinho

Published on 21/05/2024 at 14:52

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The Residents Of The United States Fear For Their Own Lives Due To The Risks Of Explosion Of Lithium-Ion Batteries, As Well As The Building

The United States is quietly moving to allow giant lithium-ion batteries to be installed on the rooftops of buildings in New York. MicroGrid Networks plans to build a colossal energy storage system atop a building in Brooklyn.

The U.S. nonprofit company says viable locations for battery storage — touted as the future of green energy — are extremely limited, and building on top of New Yorkers’ homes is necessary for the city to meet its climate goals.

If approved, the project would mark the first time such a substation could be built on the rooftop of a residential building anywhere in the neighborhoods, in the United States, potentially spreading its ambitious idea around the world.

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Company Faces Difficulties In Finding Owners Willing To Host Its Batteries

Not everything is rosy; the company has been facing difficulties in finding owners willing to host its batteries, and the residents of the Williamsburg building are not at all pleased with the idea.

For two years, the residents of Williamsburg have fought tooth and nail to not become the first apartment building to showcase cutting-edge technology on its roof. If authorized, it would open the floodgates for lithium-ion batteries to be built on other residential rooftops.

The residents fear for their own safety due to the risks of explosion from lithium-ion batteries, as well as the building — specifically, if its structure is capable of supporting several tons above them.

“It’s more frightening than frustrating — the prospect of living with around 135 tons of batteries over your head that could catch fire or explode at any moment,” said Olivia Silver, 25, who has lived at 315 Berry her whole life, to The Post. (MicroGrid estimated that the equipment will weigh over 300,000 pounds)

The residents point to recent Tesla battery fires as an example, claiming that MicroGrid’s lithium iron phosphate batteries are similar, and of an order of magnitude larger. In defense, the company wrote in a presentation that “these batteries, unlike other lithium batteries, do not catch fire,” but other lithium iron phosphate batteries have been involved in at least one recent fatal explosion.

Additionally, the residents of the building note that their 49-unit building, from the early 20th century, is not in a condition to bear more weight on its roof as it is covered with cracks, floods frequently, has over 25 open violations, and has a partial eviction order from when a piece of the façade fell into the now-closed community garden below.

Ambitious Plan to Build a Colossal Energy Storage System with Gigantic Lithium Batteries on Rooftops Terrifies Residents in the United States Due to Explosion Risk

The Residents Of The United States Fear For Their Own Lives Due To The Risks Of Explosion Of Lithium-Ion Batteries, As Well As The Building

Company Faces Difficulties In Finding Owners Willing To Host Its Batteries

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Ambitious Plan to Build a Colossal Energy Storage System with Gigantic Lithium Batteries on Rooftops Terrifies Residents in the United States Due to Explosion Risk

The Residents Of The United States Fear For Their Own Lives Due To The Risks Of Explosion Of Lithium-Ion Batteries, As Well As The Building

Company Faces Difficulties In Finding Owners Willing To Host Its Batteries

While an average building in London or New York takes three years to be completed, in China a 26-story tower went up in five days with about 100 workers, and the global modular construction market already moves US$ 95 billion per year.

A Chinese factory in Guangdong is assembling a humanoid robot every 30 minutes while Tesla, Figure, and Boston Dynamics still struggle to deliver 10 thousand per year.

Australia installs giant concrete structures on the seabed 800 meters from the shore to create an ocean intake for desalination that will draw in saltwater and produce 30 million liters of drinking water per day.

Secret chamber sealed 4,500 years ago found in the Pyramid of Khufu, and Hawass announces its opening to the world in 2026

A public school student single-handedly created a machine capable of treating water for up to 50 people using only solar energy. It was awarded third place at one of the most important science fairs in the world.

Germany installed vertical solar panels on a lake in Bavaria, and the result broke conventional logic: instead of producing energy at midday peak, the plant generates more early in the morning and in the evening, exactly when families turn on appliances and factories are in full swing.

While communities suffer from water scarcity and the advancing desert, women in Morocco use nets high up in the mountains to trap fog droplets, fill reservoirs, and transport drinking water through more than 10 km of piping.

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Berlin opens a 25,000 m² hole in the center and unearths its medieval origins, with archaeologists racing against construction to save coins, latrines, shoes, ceramics, and bones of the first inhabitants before the site soon becomes urban apartments.

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