E_NonymouseOct 26, 2024
Covidiocracy

Fluorescent green sodium hydroxide liquid, leaked from Tesla's Palo Alto headquarters, flows along a street gutter. The chemical, which is used as coolant for Tesla's "AI supercomputer," eventually ran into Matadero Creek. Fire officials say more than 500 gallons were recovered, as cleanup efforts continue into next week.

Tesla doesn't have a permit to store the chemical, and "could be fined."

Video: Mike Hedblom

https://sfstandard.com/2024/10/24/tesla-hq-spills-bright-green-chemicals-into-palo-alto-creek/

#Tesla #ElonMusk #environment #pollution #regulation

Tesla spills bright green chemical into Palo Alto creek

Cleanup efforts continue after Tesla dumped a bright green chemical into a storm drain last week from its Palo Alto offices, officials say.

The San Francisco Standard
Oct 25, 2024 at 7:25pmWeb
Show threadRaven OnthillOct 25, 2024
@ampersine Wait a minute. Sodium hydroxide is otherwise known as lye and is anything but mild. But I'm pretty sure that's not what's in that liquid. It looks like antifreeze and it probably is similar.
Show threadglasspshrOct 25, 2024

@ravenonthill @ampersine these rich guys make me sick! The sodium hydroxide in my lab is just boring old white

Yeah I agree. Maybe antifreeze with a bit of sodium hydroxide to keep the pH at the right level

Show threadI see Dud people!Oct 25, 2024
@ampersine Will they be fined? And if they are, will it be a derisory amount in relation to Tesla's overall market value?
Show threadLinzaOct 25, 2024
@ampersine Apple does this shit too. The EPA basically doesn't exist anymore. The only thing that can stop this is arming environmentalists, IMO.
Show threadD. SchmuddeOct 25, 2024

@Linza @ampersine to be fair, maybe the EPA never “existed” for tech enforcement.

The old Commodore/MOS plant in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania is a disaster, the rate of birth defects around IBM’s old plant in Poughkeepsie is incredibly high, and Silicon Valley is littered with superfund sites.

Tech externalizes all the costs and then the tax payers do our best to clean it up. It’s a long tradition to support the great “innovators” who get rich off of destruction.

Show threadLinzaOct 26, 2024
@schmudde @ampersine Arm the environmentalists Y/N
Show threadtootbruteOct 26, 2024
@Linza @schmudde @ampersine yes. Ar-15s for anyone that believes climate change is real and caused by humans
Show threaddeath to empiresOct 26, 2024
@Linza arm them and no legal recourse for protecting the land. @schmudde @ampersine
Show threadRobert LinkOct 25, 2024
@ampersine First thing I thought when I read about this was "Prestone?"
Show threadIris Young (he/they/she) (PhD)Oct 25, 2024
@ampersine maybe letting it flow into the creek means they *aren't* storing it 🤔 (/s)
Show threadKinky KoboldsOct 26, 2024
@iris @ampersine That sounds like the kind of excuse a company run by Elon Musk would make.
Show threadUrzlOct 25, 2024
@ampersine Lye isn't green on its own, what else was in that waste stream?
Show threadCovidiocracyOct 25, 2024
@gooba42
Show threadmotionsuggestsOct 25, 2024
@ampersine WTF “could be fined”
Show threadAlan CampbellOct 25, 2024
@ampersine Could? I'd prefer Would.
Show threadBig Jesus Trashcan☑️🏴Oct 25, 2024
@ampersine that stuff is a hard base & will dissolve lots of stuff
Show threadZeromus Leeuniteus DarksideousOct 25, 2024
@ampersine Nah, thats just some old Ecto Cooler I dumped out of my car. Sorry about that.
Show threadGonzaloOct 26, 2024
@ampersine oh no, fined? that's terrible!
Show threadsadele2Oct 26, 2024

@ampersine

"The liquid, which the Palo Alto Fire Department has deemed to be a nonhazardous mixture of borax, lye (also called sodium hydroxide) and green dye…"

Was used as a coolant, “used for the chiller system to cool the Tesla Artificial Intelligence Supercomputer.”

Was ai giving instruction on how to drain the liquid?

"Palo Alto Online first reported on the spill Thursday, pointing out that the city hadn’t notified residents during the initial cleanup."

https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/tesla-spills-lime-green-liquid-19863951.php

Show threadLstn2urmama 🇨🇦Oct 26, 2024

@ampersine ANTIFREEZE WILL ALWAYS BE ANTIFREEZE TO KEEP ANYTHING FROM OVERHEATING

🚨 AN ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTER DANGEROUS FOR ALL ANIMALS TO CONSUME OF ANY SORT
🚨🚨🚨 🔃 ITS A POISON ... 🚨🚨🚨

Show threadE_NonymouseOct 26, 2024
@ampersine https://byjus.com/chemistry/sodium-hydroxide/
:/ May be fined? This is a very dangerous chemical.
Show threadTofuTheSquirrelOct 26, 2024
@ampersine of course it had to be fluorescent and green. Are you sure it's in Palo Alto ? Not Springfield ? 😆
Show threadF4GRX SébastienOct 26, 2024

@ampersine sodium hydroxide is corrosive, it wont be used as coolant. Colored stuff like this is usually glycol based.

Not that it changes anything on the nastiness and assholery of tesla...

Show threadOne-and-only Allen VersfeldOct 26, 2024
@ampersine sodium hydroxide is drain cleaner. Your sources might have confused it with something else?
Show threadDofainOct 26, 2024
@ampersine @Sorvall "could"
Must be nice to be rich.
Show threadSorvallOct 26, 2024

@Dofain @ampersine Well any fine at worst will be a few million, and we saw recently what a joke that was with Apple.

The only real difference is that most of Musks operations are total money pits.

Show threadSweet Home Alaberta 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽Oct 26, 2024
@ampersine
Oligarchs are above the law, so maybe a minor fine that won't even cover cleanup costs.
Show threadDavid LeP0leOct 26, 2024
@ampersine Elon Musk is an egocentric garbage...
Show threadnone gender with left politicsOct 26, 2024
@ampersine isn't sodium hydroxide...lye? It's extremely corrosive. It's also not green. There must be more to this story than "sodium hydroxide liquid"...
Show threadgullevek ☢️ 🇯🇵Oct 27, 2024
@ampersine “Could be fined”. Fucking shite
Show threadオチュー🕊🇵🇸Oct 27, 2024
@ampersine feels like a The Simpson thing to happen