There’d be real “fun and flgames (not a typo) for the pledges” if that happened in flight. Since Li batteries are so muchmore compact and lighter than their lead scid counterparts and NMh counterparts, Boeing may have a serious redesign problem, the 787 having, at least in part, been designed around the new batteries.
I have a friend who is involved in the “fix” for the battery problem. He said it involves construction of a titanium box to surround the batteries. The idea is, if the batteries catch on fire, the fire will die because there won’t be any oxygen to sustain it. I asked him if there are any systems in the jet that will be lost if the batteries catch on fire, and he wasn’t sure. I said I’m not flying on that plane anytime soon.
Take your laptop computer, plug it in, and use it for an hour on your lap... it will get warm.
Pull the plug out and use it on battery. It will get HOT!
This is how batteries work. They need a different battery- but they can't... why? government regulations.
Those government officials who are so much more brilliant than you and me and mere airline electrical engineers deemed it so.
And they designed Obamacare too, which will burn equally as bad.
Already the $1T cost estimate has grown to $6Trillian, and i am certain they are not done yet.
Remember the “Government Rule of 10” that says every government program will cost ten times as much as originally projected and/or take 10 times as long.
We have been waiting since I was in high school for a second bridge to cross the river from Buffalo to Niagara Falls Canada- but they are still “studying” it
I am 55 now.
Lithium batteries are so dangerous that when we carried lithium battery-powdered sonobouys aboard the P-3, NATOPS added special procedures of getting rid of them if they started to burn. If they burned we had no way to extinguish them.
• Sitting on a rack above the battery that burned was a smaller lithium ion battery, also supplied by Japanese manufacturer GS Yuasa, that is used to provide emergency power for the jet’s flight controls “for a minimum of 10 minutes when no other electrical power is available.”
Those batteries should not even be in the same compartment of the plane. Stupid is as stupid does.
No other type of battery is going to work very well, imo. Boeing will likely stick with Lithium Ion batteries and get approval to fly. They will probably go with a slightly different type of Lithium Ion battery if they change at all. They will improve the containment system, improve the monitoring system and the charging system, and move on, I think.