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.
Correct, while also mostly incorrect.
They cannot just throw another battery type in and go flying. The aircraft was designed and certified for this particular battery; to use any other is to violate certification standards...this is a good thing.
However, they CAN install a different battery system and go flying, IF they re-certify that system. A long and costly process, to be sure, but critical to safety.
Not a government problem at all, the problem lies between Boeing and GS Yuasa.
I don't understand what you're getting at. What battery do they need? This Li-Ion/Cobalt has the highest energy density of any candidate chemistry. That's the mistake they made -- going for the bleeding edge, not just lithium but bleeding edge lithium. Going to Nimh or whatever will introduce a weight and footprint penalty that will impact the load carrying capacity and fuel usage. But this seems to be what is needed.
I for one will not fly in a 787 with the "separated plates" and/or titanium enclosure fix.