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... per capita lifetime household H2O consumption, 109k gallons?

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  1. asjoseph

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    it's a good thing they save all that water on other car fires, so it's a breakeven
     
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    Water is a renewable resource.
     
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    the more tesla semis on the road, the more other cars we'll have to start torching, to be sure of saving enough water
     
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    It's not like ICE fires can cause extensive damage, or the lighter than water, burning fuel can flow elsewhere.
     
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    I had an overloaded 12 V battery almost strand my wife and I in the middle of a no-shade, parking area. I spied the early smoke and popped the ground off just in time. A couple of hours later, reconnected and we drove home.

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    Trollbait It's a D&D thing

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    Car sized blankets for smothering EV fires are already available.
    Nozzles are being developed to spray under the cars to cool the battery packs more directly.
    Then some locations will do what they used to do to old VWs with burning engines; bury them.

    This is a temporary issue.
     
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    has anyone ever attempted to put out an elephant fire?
     
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    ETC(SS) The OTHER One Percenter.....

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    "consumption...." (non pulmonary tuberculosis.)
    noun
    1. the using up of a resource.

    You can "use up" water?
    Where does it go? ;)
     
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    Global hydrological cycling explains where water goes. A fascinating topic I say and maybe it deserves a summary in a more appropriate place. Most briefly the fraction of terrestrial water returning to salty places is used up. But that is not a permanent fate.

    Here is for telling sad tales about EVs. See what sticks to the fridge.
     
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    usually childrens coloring, which sums up the op
     
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    I wonder where that claim came from. It works out to about 3.8 gallons per day (gpd), for a pre-Pandemic average life expectancy of 78.8 years. That is an extreme under-representation. Less than a single flush of some old-era toilets.

    Several sources suggest that California's per capita urban indoor water use is about 48 gallons per day. I'm seeing other sources including urban outdoor use, range from 69 to 146 gpd recently, down from 231 gpd back in 1990. If all uses are included, including agriculture, it rises to almost 1000 gpd.