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Old January 25th 20, 01:55 AM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
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Default Future of aviation, or flash in the pan??

On 1/24/20 1:07 PM, Bob Kuykendall wrote:
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.


What ever the number is, it can pack a punch. Relevant stuff starts
about 5:00


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvkEpstd9os&t=1326s