“The Palo Alto Fire Department recovered approximately 550 gallons of the mixture from the storm drain,” the report said. “The incident occurred while Tesla personnel were draining the system.”
Put Lonnie in jail, ffs.
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, spilled out of the Tesla office at 1501 Page Mill Road onto Hanover Street.
How is lye nonhazardous? Can’t it cause serious chemical burns? Maybe it’s just in low enough concentration that that’s not a concern.
“Storage of sodium hydroxide requires a City permit, which Tesla had not obtained.”
Elon does not care about laws and it’s been shown over and over that he doesn’t have to.
When the penalty is a fine, it isn’t a penalty to the rich.
The headline saying “gallons” doesn’t really imply “550 gallons“ which was the actual amount. That’s a lot of pollution.
A better way to put it would to say quarter ton, since that’s what it really is
If it’s weight is anything like water, 550 gallons would weigh near 2.5 tons
Really. Someone spills a few gallons of nonhazardous cleaning fluid on a street, and this becomes a highly-upvoted article with dozens of comments on a global news community?
Tesla broke the law on storing hazardous materials and as a result spilled 550 gallons of mildly dangerous cleaning fluid onto a public street.
It’s not a national news story, you’re right, but it’s also not nothing. Mostly it’s just interesting as one more tidbit of information about how they do things.
It’s not a national news story, you’re right
And this is fundamentally my point here. This is a trivial little story that at most warrants a paragraph in a local newspaper somewhere. Big companies have little spills of random stuff all the time. But since this particular company is the current hot target for Internet rage, its clickbait potential is vast and people are eager to dive in to it for their Two Minutes Hate.
If people really want a meaningful story about Tesla’s bad environmental practices or safety procedures or whatever to get angry about, do a little legwork to find some actually meaningful incident or perhaps some kind of study to determine larger scale patterns. The focus on this particular news item should be embarassing for Tesla opponents. Is this really all that it takes? Or all that they can find?
I’m going to share an article about a Lemmy user who can’t come to terms with the fact that it isn’t up to them what other users post, next.
I’m just talking shit, your argument is valid and you’re allowed to share your thoughts.
