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Safety Of ‘Clean Energy’ Battery Storage Facilities Questioned After CA Blaze

Renewable energy advocates have long called for building battery complexes to store intermittent solar and wind energy, but a recent fire that spewed toxic heavy metals all around a California battery storage facility that went up in flames have some leaders wondering whether the new technology is worth the risk and environmental cost.

A few weeks ago in Monterey, a massive grid-scale battery-powered energy storage facility went up in flames, spewing burnt battery material into the air. Now, scientists at San Jose State University have found extremely high levels of toxic heavy metals – hundreds to thousands of times higher than before – in the area near the fire, despite the Environmental Protection Agencies initial claims that the fire did not release toxins.

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