Tesla headquarters spills gallons of lime-green liquid into Bay Area street
Tesla headquarters spills gallons of lime-green liquid into Bay Area street
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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.
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“Storage of sodium hydroxide requires a City permit, which Tesla had not obtained.”
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Elon does not care about laws and it's been shown over and over that he doesn't have to.
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He obviously does, he's not storing it anymore after spilling it out now is he?
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When the penalty is a fine, it isn't a penalty to the rich.
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"Cost of doing business."
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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.
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You don't want concentrated lye, but diluted lye is safe enough to make soap. My question, and I'm not the only one asking in this thread, is- is a mixture of borax and lye a good coolant for a supercomputer?
I guess you could argue that the green is so they would recognize a coolant leak...
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Borax is used for flushing large coolant systems. The green dye is probably to find leaks or identify when the flush has cleared out any residual coolant.
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Ah, that makes more sense then.
But lye as well?
Edit: never mind, that discussion says also lye.
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They use this mixture at my work as well. Flushing out large sub freezing cooling systems. We don't dump it out on the street though.
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If it's anything like the places I work, they specifically tell you to be very careful about what you wash away.
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The lye concentration used to make soap is rather nasty if it gets on your skin and you don't deal with it immediately. Source: I've made a lot of soap from scratch.
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Okay, now I have more "why" questions.
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Water cooling for a set of computers. Additives prevent bacteria growth.
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