Thread: Future of aviation, or flash in the pan??
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Old January 24th 20, 08:07 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Bob Kuykendall
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Default Future of aviation, or flash in the pan??
On Friday, January 24, 2020 at 11:19:09 AM UTC-8, jfitch wrote:

...Let's see, 900KWH is the same energy in......154 lbs of Jet-A. Not sure how much energy is in 8200 lbs of LiCo if you light it on fire though.

Fully-charged lithium battery fires generally release as heat 1.6 times the stored electrical energy over the course of the runaway. So it'd be about like 250 lbs of Jet-A.