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What I find most amusing...
By SublimeSimplicity on 2/1/2013 2:37:22 PM , Rating: 2
Is that what is going unsaid is that the reason the 787 is using that chemistry of battery is because they are FAA approved. Safer, better suited, chemistries are out there, but the expense and time to get them FAA certified is too much.
So Boeing is forced to use a cell that they know is unsafe, because the FAA says its safe and because getting the FAA to rubber stamp a cell they know is safer would take too long.

RE: What I find most amusing...
By DT_Reader on 2/1/2013 3:33:44 PM , Rating: 3
Not true. The FAA didn't certify the battery in advance, leaving Boeing little choice but to use that battery, they certified that battery because that's what Boeing chose to submit for certification. Boeing chose the most volatile form of Li-ion battery to save weight and space. The weight is a small issue; the unfortunate reality is that they didn't leave room for a larger substitute, so now they're really hosed. Airbus, by being two years later to market, has two more years to make room if they need to change the battery type.

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