Hoyt A. Stearns Jr. <[email protected]> wrote: Maybe the higher radiation environment at high altitude facilitates LENR. >
If that were the case, I think they would have discovered it during flight tests. There are now 50 Dreamliners in service. I believe there were two used in testing before the airliners put them in service, so there were many hours of flight accumulated, albeit at a rate ~25 times lower than now. I think they would have discovered an anomaly that turns on at high altitudes. On the other hand, something is happening that did not occur during flight testing. My guess is that it is a manufacturing defect in some batteries but not others. The ones used in flight tests were okay, and most of the ones deployed now are okay, but some are defective. Manufacturing defects with batteries of this type have caused fires in laptop computers. Stray scraps of metal left in the batteries, according to press reports. The Dreamliner is also having problems with a valve in the wings leaking fuel. - Jed
