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Old 29th Jul 2016, 06:36
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Fair cop vapilot "never say never" point taken !

But the lithium iron phosphate chemistry is inherently very much safer in that the battery materials themselves will not sustain a exothermic reaction

Others especially lithium colbalt oxide (the chemistry used in dreamliner do burn in a self sustaining reaction. A very very diferent scenario

Any concentrated energy source can get hot.. very hot when many kwh are contained in a small space, it is reasonable in an aviation setting that cells should be protected from cascading heat failure. But that is a very much easier (and lighter) ask with lipo than li colbalt oxide
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