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Old 22nd Feb 2013, 12:21
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Taking into account that there are 8 cells, the MTBF of the battery is already almost an order of magnitude lower than that for any cell...
If we are sooner or later flying around with 20 times the number of dreamliners, the MTBF should be increased by at least a factor of 100. That would still give us around one burning battery per year, possibly 3 hours away from the next airport.
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