It’s part of Derek Lowe’s series “Things I Won’t Work With” He has a bunch of others on biochemistry that are generally less terrifying but very informative. 

Saw a nice experiment on putting out a magnesium fire with gasoline.

Li-Ion batteries are shipped HAZMAT, but it’s a low level one. If I ship 8 pallets of batteries the truck does not even need a hazmat placard unless it is going over a body of water.   So even if I had a Tesla Semi, shipping 70,000 lbs of batteries it’s still considered standard cargo except for over water.

I would love a comparison deep dive about the risks of crashed and burning electric vehicles vs. ICE. Obviously, a regular semi fire isn’t exactly safe; there’s no way to set a big vehicle full of chemicals on fire in the middle of the road without SOMETHING bad happening. I guess the questions are:

Or what makes it different than a normal semi truck carrying 150 gallons of diesel fuel? Which for the record is also a hazardous material that releases toxic fumes when burned, and doesn’t even need to be mixed with water first for it to leach into the groundwater.

When bosses try to kill their employees, turning them in to deadly missiles on public highways, they should be criminally prosecuted. This should not be controversial.

Trucks with AC is supposed to be part of the big contract they renegotiated a couple years ago along with six figure top rate annual pay for drivers. 

OK, I’ll bite: wouldn’t issuing the drivers water-cooled vests be a longer term cheaper solution instead of the harm happening to the driver and wrecking the van?

This. If you’re getting multiple deliveries each week, please put out a small cooler with cold bottled water in it, and maybe some quick energy boosting snacks if you’re feeling generous. These are thankless jobs and our desire for convenience makes it extra hard on these folks, while the companies they work for do…

“Was the driver required to continue driving even after telling the company that they felt ill?” - Yes

Our drivers in C FL mostly do have AC and fans. Of course, I asked. And I still give them cold bottled water when they deliver here.

Apparently it is per earth day.

I wish they would do a revival of Junkyard Wars. Or maybe they have and I don’t know about it?

“So help me, one step closer and I will close the frunk!”

Heck yeah it is. And since Discovery picked it up 5 years ago, the production quality on the show has gone through the roof. Many of the bots are legitimately terrifyingly powerful now and the competition gets better every year.

“Are you seriously so retarded that you think I donated a Cybertruck to a Russian general?”

Considering they’re driving around in Chinese golf carts on the battlefield? I doubt they could afford many of them.

He is not an engineer, and never was

It’ll probably brick itself after hitting a mud puddle near the frontline. All the Ukrainians have to do is wait for a Russian tow truck to come pick it up and they can score an easy 2-for-1.

It’s such a horribly bad choice for any military application that I hope the Russians buy thousands of them.