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Boeing: New Enclosure 'Keeps Us From Ever Having a Fire'
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| 3/15/2013
| Charles Murray
Posted on 03/18/2013 8:36:42 AM PDT by null and void
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Yes. And the Titanic is still unsinkable...
To: null and void
Even hobbyists, most of whom are not chemists, know that Li batteries provide their own O2 in thermal runaway events.
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posted on
03/18/2013 8:44:31 AM PDT
by
steve86
(Acerbic by Nature, not Nurture™)
To: null and void
This is your pilot speaking “Even God and icebergs can’t put this plane down.”
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posted on
03/18/2013 8:48:39 AM PDT
by
BipolarBob
(Happy Hunger Games! May the odds be ever in your favor.)
To: null and void
Their claim is probably accurate.
The battery won’t catch fire.
It’ll just explode instead...
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posted on
03/18/2013 8:48:41 AM PDT
by
chrisser
(Senseless legislation does nothing to solve senseless violence.)
To: steve86
I own Boeing stock and root for them when deserved, but this is just papering over the problem. Batteries shouldn’t catch fire. Period. Fix THAT problem.
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posted on
03/18/2013 8:49:59 AM PDT
by
BikerJoe
To: null and void
Sounds like they are turning it into a pipe bomb instead.
The pressure has to go somewhere.
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posted on
03/18/2013 8:51:19 AM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
("Somebody has to be courageous enough to stand up to the bullies." --Dr. Ben Carson)
To: null and void
Much of the same green thinking that went into these batteries were what caused the Columbia disaster, I pray we don’t see another caused because of PC thinking here.
Seems the best foam was not used on the SS because of ozone restrictions by the EPA, even though when that bad boy went THROUGH the ozone it did about a million times more damage to it than a few whiffs of esters ever could.
Why are they using these at all, to reduce running the APU?
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posted on
03/18/2013 8:51:38 AM PDT
by
Abathar
(Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
To: null and void; DaveTesla
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posted on
03/18/2013 8:52:40 AM PDT
by
Defiant
(If there are infinite parallel universes, why Lord, am I living in the one with Obama as President?)
To: null and void
Sinnett defended the performance of the lithium-ion battery packs to date... Other than that, how did you enjoy the play Mrs. Lincoln?
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posted on
03/18/2013 8:59:23 AM PDT
by
Gamecock
( If we distort the gospel, that distortion will influence and affect everything else that we believe)
My policy is to never buy a car that is in it’s first model year, or to fly on a new model airplane.
I won’t fly on an A-380 for a couple more years or a 787 for at least 5.
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posted on
03/18/2013 9:01:43 AM PDT
by
Gamecock
( If we distort the gospel, that distortion will influence and affect everything else that we believe)
To: null and void
This is big news here (seattle area). In none of the reports has there been note that the battery is fixed.
Just that it is contained.
Comforting. /s
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posted on
03/18/2013 9:02:42 AM PDT
by
llevrok
(Keep your arms out. It makes it harder for them to throw a net over you.)
To: null and void
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posted on
03/18/2013 9:03:23 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: null and void
If man were ment to fly he would have wings.
Travel over 60 mph will suck the air out of passengers' lungs and cause them to suffocate.
Shut down the patent office. Everything that will be invented has been invented.
If we listened to this advice, there would never be technological innovation. That innovation involves risk. Boeing will fix the problem while some just continue to wring their hands in despair.
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posted on
03/18/2013 9:14:57 AM PDT
by
pfflier
To: null and void
Ah, the Apollo 13 solution - a burst disc.
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posted on
03/18/2013 9:28:10 AM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
(If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, you've likely misread the situation.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Sounds like they are turning it into a pipe bomb instead. The pressure has to go somewhere. It appears that you missed this part from the second paragraph... "...the pressure disc in the rear of the enclosure would open after about 1.5 seconds of cell venting. Vented electrolyte would then entrain the air inside the enclosure and 'take it overboard... So as long as we keep the vented air out of the battery enclosure, theres no oxygen to support combustion.'"
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posted on
03/18/2013 9:58:25 AM PDT
by
John Valentine
(Deep in the Heart of Texas)
To: steve86
Even hobbyists, most of whom are not chemists, know that Li batteries provide their own O2 in thermal runaway events. Precisely.
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posted on
03/18/2013 9:59:14 AM PDT
by
null and void
(If the government is so worried about civil disturbance, why are they working so hard to disturb us?)
To: Abathar
What? You mean eco-friendly terpenes don’t clean as well as Freons?
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posted on
03/18/2013 10:01:11 AM PDT
by
null and void
(If the government is so worried about civil disturbance, why are they working so hard to disturb us?)
To: Gamecock
My policy is to never buy a car that is in its first model year, or to fly on a new model airplane. I wont fly on an A-380 for a couple more years or a 787 for at least 5.
Or buy any microsoft product before service pack 2
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posted on
03/18/2013 10:02:23 AM PDT
by
null and void
(If the government is so worried about civil disturbance, why are they working so hard to disturb us?)
To: llevrok
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posted on
03/18/2013 10:03:01 AM PDT
by
null and void
(If the government is so worried about civil disturbance, why are they working so hard to disturb us?)
To: null and void
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posted on
03/18/2013 10:15:43 AM PDT
by
Little Ray
(Waiting for the return of the Gods of the Copybook Headings.)
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