The age of electric flight is finally upon us

Re:The age of electric flight is finally upon us by vosper on Friday June 21, 2019 @01:53PM (#20244822)

You can't really rain burning battery pods down on the landscape, though. What if the plane is over a populated area?

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Re:The age of electric flight is finally upon us by Gracana on Friday June 21, 2019 @03:19PM (#20245545)

You're not supposed to drop burning planes out of the sky either, but sometimes it happens.

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Re:The age of electric flight is finally upon us by zdragnar on Friday June 21, 2019 @02:27PM (#20245113)

Or a dry forest, or grassland. Burning lithium probably can't be all that good for ponds, rivers or lakes either.

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Re:The age of electric flight is finally upon us by frenchyatwork on Friday June 21, 2019 @03:03PM (#20245403)

Burning lithium in a pond sounds awfully spectacular, with an emphasis on the awful.

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Re:The age of electric flight is finally upon us by _ph_ on Friday June 21, 2019 @04:31PM (#20246075)

One is actually supposed to use water for large lithium battery fires, Tesla recommends this. The lithium in batteries isn't elemental and thus does not react strongly with the water.

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