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Battery Recycling Plant Fire (Kilwinning)

The Wee Bear

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Just posting because it was local to me folks, not a very good place for a fire to breakout, that's for sure. 🙄

I could hear the explosions from my house and I'm at the other end of the town.
Thankfully no one has been hurt. 👍
 
Lithium burning? Blimey, looks scary. Hope they're insured.
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Yes looks a very intense blaze Lucian, don't think the building will be in a good state now.

The pallets outside look a bit worrying.

It was a very long building too.

Will pop down soon and see the damage.
 
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Hi,

It has to be said that the pallets outside look to have been carefully spaced so as to try to avoid a fire in one immediately having an immediate adverse impact on others which does suggest that the operators of the plant are at least trying to do the right thing.

I suspect that fires in lithium ion battery recycling plants are inevitable and they probably need to be designed on the basis that the batteries will catch fire on a regular basis no matter what the operators do.
 
I popped down for a nosey but it's still actually burning, it's all still closed off with smoke everywhere.

I sneaked in through the woods round the side though, covered in mud yet again. 🙄

The smell is really bad all around the whole area.🤢

Looks like the whole length of the building has gone up, demolition job on the way I think.:(

Not sure it'll be allowed there again as there are brand new houses very near the plant now.🤷‍♂️
 
Whilst I don't want or need a nanny state, I also think we have a significant gap in the UK to have effective public information campaigns to help the population do the right thing.

- Recycling, and the importance of not putting Li and other batteries in general waste.
- Keeping the wrong things out of waste water (no comments needed on Water Companies tho)
- Cyber security
- Finance fraud and scams
- Changing regulations that affect most of the population
- Healthcare and looking after yourself
Etc.

Yeh, some articles are not going to be to the taste of everyone but you don't have to act on what you're told, but at least you had the chance to make an informed decision.

So much is left to chance, which leads to your typical "I was inconvenienced by something I didn't know and it's not my fault" article in the media that fosters outrage. The UK depends on publicity about something which might or might not be seen, etc. but unless they are compelled to do something by contract or statue it rarely happens. The public sector budgets to spend money on publicity are decimated, yet the government could easily legislate for airtime, adverts, column inches, etc to be made available for public benefit at little or no cost with a central government department pushing what has been agreed in a non-partisan way.
 
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Whilst I don't want or need a nanny state, I also think we have a significant gap in the UK to have effective public information campaigns to help the population do the right thing.

- Recycling, and the importance of not putting Li and other batteries in general waste.
- Keeping the wrong things out of waste water (no comments needed on Water Companies tho)
- Cyber security
- Finance fraud and scams
- Changing regulations that affect most of the population
- Healthcare and looking after yourself
Etc.

Yeh, some articles are not going to be to the taste of everyone but you don't have to act on what you're told, but at least you had the chance to make an informed decision.

So much is left to chance, which leads to your typical "I was inconvenienced by something I didn't know and it's not my fault" article in the media that fosters outrage. The UK depends on publicity about something which might or might not be seen, etc. but unless they are compelled to do something by contract or statue it rarely happens. The public sector budgets to spend money on publicity are decimated, yet the government could easily legislate for airtime, adverts, column inches, etc to be made available for public benefit at little or no cost with a central government department pushing what has been agreed in a non-partisan way.
Tbf they have started doing a fraud awareness campaign recently, it’s quite a smart advert fitting in different types of scams and then telling you to stop and think

I was very disappointed to see the amount of American people who truly believed that the eclipse was the end of the world because they read something on Facebook, it made me worried for humanity
 
Tbf they have started doing a fraud awareness campaign recently, it’s quite a smart advert fitting in different types of scams and then telling you to stop and think

I was very disappointed to see the amount of American people who truly believed that the eclipse was the end of the world because they read something on Facebook, it made me worried for humanity
I am fed up of seeing that fraud advert on YouTube etc but it's for a good purpose.

Ofcom needs to do more though, it's not really the governments job to advertise all this.
 
Ah interesting. I get fed a diet of various tech stuff on YouTube and X, yet I have not noticed the anti-fraud ad online or on traditional media.
 
I dont watch YouTube all that much - the occasional featurette or something like Adam Savage's channel - but I've only ever seen ads for EE. And I'm mightily aware of EE's campaigns so I do wonder what the algorithm is for that stuff.

Sidenote: Amused I read about this news here before the *actual* news! :D
 
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I dont watch YouTube all that much - the occasional featurette or something like Adam Savage's channel - but I've only ever seen ads for EE. And I'm mightily aware of EE's campaigns so I do wonder what the algorithm is for that stuff.

Sidenote: Amused I read about this news here before the *actual* news! :D
Yeah EE's adverts are quite aggressive unfortunately, it's mostly just the gaming ones I get though

My adverts aren't personalised btw since YouTube detects that I'm under 18 (surely they'd assume I'm over 18 considering my account has been open for just under 10 years)
 
Just posting because it was local to me folks, not a very good place for a fire to breakout, that's for sure. 🙄

I could hear the explosions from my house and I'm at the other end of the town.
Thankfully no one has been hurt. 👍
They should have hired your mast's guard sheep to keep it safe
 
They should have hired your mast's guard sheep to keep it safe
Absolutely cg0, they can't be messed with at all, they run at 50 miles an hour towards you when they see you, thank goodness for the fence.😳
 
Just a wee update folks, a short drone footage taken today, it's still actually burning, but as you can see, there's not anything left of the building now.

I'm amazed at it burning for so long. 😳
 
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Just a wee update folks, a short drone footage taken today, it's still actually burning, but as you can see, there's not anything left of the building now.

I'm amazed at it burning for so long. 😳
I saw recently on BBC news or somewhere a testimony from a firefighter about car fires, a normal petrol car fire takes about 0.5-1h to put out properly. For EVs it's more like 4h because of the batteries.

I can certainly believe that thing is still burning even after all this time.
 
Just sharing some more piccies for anyone still interested folks.
I think it may need more than a couple of tins of paint now though. :unsure: 😊
 
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