Aviation Week feels that the 787 should have gone back to nickel cadmium batteries. Lithium is not an essential technology. They never did figure out why the batteries burst into flames. The fixes to the battery itself may or may not work. Nobody knows. The fireproof battery box ought to work, but who can be happy with a battery so fire prone to need such?
Clearly, if Aviation Week had been calling the shots, they would have told Boeing to get rid of the lithium.
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