Jan Wildeboer 馃樂:krulorange:
Jan Wildeboer 馃樂:krulorange:  路  2 months ago
"Big batteries at home could catch fire! They are a risk!"

No: "the findings indicate that the probability of an home storage systems (HSS) fire is very low (0.0049 馃槚 and is 50 times lower than for a general house fire."

"But solar panels catch fire quite often!"

No: "Compared to the generally low fire probability of an HSS, the probability of PV systems catching fire is a further three times lower"

Preprint, RWTH Aachen, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4995517

#Renewables#Solar#PV#Battery#Research

Jan Wildeboer 馃樂:krulorange:
Jan Wildeboer 馃樂:krulorange:  路  2 months ago
(cue the naysayers that will point at what they think are methodical flaws in the preprint. I salute you! Please contact the authors with your criticisms as the preprint needs peer review from experts like you! You did read the whole preprint, though? It is quite accessible and goes to great lengths to explain the limits of their methodology)