Daejeon, South Korea · 26 Sep 2025
Government data-centre UPS battery fire
- 384 battery packs destroyed
- 647 government systems offline
- About 22 hours to extinguish
Sources: Korea Herald, Korea JoongAng Daily, ESS News
Engineering Sustainability Science
SUNMASS INNOVATIONS
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DELTTA SUNMASS · NEX GEN
A patent-pending platform designed to read the earliest signatures of lithium-ion thermal runaway, and act before one cell becomes a disaster.
Concept rendering
Inside the module
Concept rendering. Layer functions describe design intent.
The prediction horizon
Simulation for illustration only. Timings and behaviour show design intent, not measured performance.
The grey-swan record
A grey swan is a risk everyone knows exists, but few expect to face today. These are real incidents, with public sources.
Daejeon, South Korea · 26 Sep 2025
Sources: Korea Herald, Korea JoongAng Daily, ESS News
Moss Landing, California · 16 Jan 2025
Source: U.S. EPA
Paris, France · April 2022
Sources: Reuters, Sustainable Bus
Dubai · 3 Sep 2010 · UPS Flight 6
Sources: The National, Airline Incidents
Boston Logan · 7 Jan 2013
Source: NTSB DCA13IA037
Underground mining
Sources: GMG, NSW Resources Regulator
Moving scenes are AI illustrations, not footage of the incidents described.
Sector arrays





Concept renderings and illustrative configurations. NEX GEN is under development.
Safety is improving
EPRI reports that grid-battery failure incidents per deployed GWh fell 98% from 2018 to 2025. But deployment keeps climbing: 343 GWh in 2024, 634 GWh in 2025. Rare events still arrive.
Sources: EPRI, Utility Dive
DELTTA on film
Films combine sourced incident data with AI-illustrated scenes. Performance figures are design targets pending independent testing.
Founder’s principles
“If there is no trust in the deal, there is nothing left.”
“Every generation has an obligation to free man’s mind to look at a higher plateau than the last.”
Prof. Philip Handel M. Thomas, Founder, Chairman & Global CEO
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