Normally you can extinguish a fire by depriving it of any of the three things fire needs. But a battery that goes up it has both fuel and oxidizer and will actually tend to react with water by getting hotter. The only solution is either isolation or massive amounts of water or other coolant.
It's not the energy of the fire, it's the difficulty in actually extinguishing it. Think of those trick birthday candles that relight themselves.
Normally you can extinguish a fire by depriving it of any of the three things fire needs. But a battery that goes up it has both fuel and oxidizer and will actually tend to react with water by getting hotter. The only solution is either isolation or massive amounts of water or other coolant.
It's not the energy of the fire, it's the difficulty in actually extinguishing it. Think of those trick birthday candles that relight themselves.