Tesla Megapack Caught Fire at Victorian Big Battery Site in Australia

I&#x27;ve noticed something about news media, and it may just be confirmation bias, but journalists really like to associate Tesla with fires.<p>Electrical fires aren&#x27;t <i>rare</i>, especially when there is a lot of energy involved. Heck, the pass-through or whatever in my office building from the solar panels caught fire and it was dealt with without a news article about it.

“ The fire happened during testing.” - you think that’d be in the title, or the main bullet points, not hidden in the article.<p>How is any journalism taken seriously anymore? There is always an angle.

Perhaps, a better source (or at least, one with more information): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.abc.net.au&#x2F;news&#x2F;2021-07-30&#x2F;tesla-battery-fire-moorabool-geelong&#x2F;100337488" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.abc.net.au&#x2F;news&#x2F;2021-07-30&#x2F;tesla-battery-fire-mo...</a>

So, is the whole thing destroyed, part of it?<p>Pretty bad journalism there.

Are we tracking every other pump&#x2F;refinery&#x2F;ICE vehicle burning up as well?

Melting down mountains and creating millions of tons of toxic waste all for the sake of batteries to save the environment was already questionable at best. Burning them into even more tons of toxic fumes is just adding insult to injury.<p>Off that topic, I suspect they aren&#x27;t putting out the fires because the water and foams required would destroy the nearby battery electronics and set back the project timetables.