Battery Plant Explosions in California's Coastal Areas | Here's What's Happening

Battery storage plants have been exploding in California with a regularity that is easy to miss if you are not living near one. Eight went up last year alone, and the one in Moss Landing burned for three weeks.

In this episode, physicist and Chairman of the Board of the California Arts and Sciences Institute, C. Michael Hogan explains what these facilities actually release when they go, and why the consequences for the people and the land around them outlast the event itself by a very long time.