Tesla headquarters spills gallons of lime-green liquid into Bay Area street
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I can't find specific information for "Meras 1020", but from context I guess it's some type of cooling-system treatment:
> Per the reporting party, on 10/17/2024 at approximately 1700 in the afternoon, a mixture of dye and an unidentified water treatment chemical used for the chiller system to cool the Tesla Artificial Intelligence Supercomputer was released into a storm drain at the listed location. The Palo Alto Fire Department recovered approximately 550 gallons of the mixture from the storm drain.
The reporting party is the Palo Alto Fire Department.
This was accurately presented in the article.
Yet you believe it's over 500 gallons of cleaning detergent. (According to the article, 12 gallons of those chemicals and the rest water.)
Where Meras 1020 additive is 1-2% borate and <1% lye, it really sounds closest to laundry detergent. See https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/News-Articles/City-Manager/15...
So in total they pumped 900+ gallons of water from the drain, in which there were 6 gallons of Meras 1020 additive, which is ~12oz borax and 3oz lye crystals. So like 2 cups of this white powder https://www.20muleteamlaundry.com/
Where Tesla did wrong was dumping the cooling water to the street (storm drain), same thing going to the sewer would been fine.
Note the fluorescent green dye did its job of highlighting the mishap
>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
That "coolant" is like 99% water with conditioning additive of green dye and borax, it immediately mixes with other drain water, so even if they spilled only 12 gal, that became 550 gal green-ish liquid when reached a pool area