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by marcinzm 1805 days ago
Pipes leak all the time from corrosion or get penetrated by tree roots or get punctured by construction or get damaged in earthquakes.

Lithium batteries do not need external oxygen to burn and toxic smoke coming up from your backyard with no way to reach the source doesn't sound like a fun proposition.
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agermanov 1805 days ago
How about corrosion resistant enclosure? And even it will be damaged (probability is probably low) you can have a sensor to detect that and replace the enclosure. Batteries burning underground should be less a concern compared to them burning on a wood wall of a house. In case of an incident circuit breaker will turn them off, and batteries will burn themself w/o damaging anything else.
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throwaway0a5e 1805 days ago
If you're gonna have a fire a hole in the ground is probably just about the best place for it.
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wffurr 1805 days ago
Actually, it’s a terrible place to have a fire because you can’t get to it to put it out: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/article/140716-...
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throwaway0a5e 1804 days ago
The edge case is not the rule!

Unless you happen to have a coal seam in your yard or live on a peat bog it's overwhelmingly more likely that it'll run out of fuel before it hurts anything.

People have been digging fire pits (or building up the ground to the same effect) for millennia because it makes fires more controllable.

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