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Letting the smoke out, Boeing’s battery woes…
Boeing’s Dreamliner program runs into trouble with lithium ion batteries Lithium batteries performance in providing lightweight, low volume power storage has made them a ubiquitous part of modern...
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Boeing’s lithium woes (Pt II)
A bit more on Boeing’s battery woes… The NTSB has released more pictures of the JAL battery, and there are some interesting conclusions that can be drawn from the evidence to date. First the NTSB took...
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Battery tests and experimenter’s regress (Part II)
The NTSB has released it’s interim report on the Boeing 787 JAL battery fire and it appears that Boeing’s initial safety assessment had concluded that the only way in which a battery fire would...
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Boeing’s battery woes redux…
The NTSB have released their final report on the Boeing 787 Dreamliner Li-Ion battery fires. The report makes interesting reading, but for me the most telling point is summarised in conclusion seven,...
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