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Should airplanes forbid PC laptops? It’s more serious than laptops committing suicide in bags. It’s, anything with a high-energy battery can short itself and c
by laurent92 5y ago
Should airplanes forbid PC laptops?
It’s more serious than laptops committing suicide in bags. It’s, anything with a high-energy battery can short itself and cause a fire. Worse, it could be malware or hardware. At this point I am surprised the vulnerability hasn’t been used by anyone.
- dragontamer 5y agoAirplanes have bags/boxes to throw li-ion batteries into and extinguish any particular fire. The law is that you can only bring aboard Li-ion batteries of size 100 watt-hrs or smaller on any airplane (https://www.tsa.gov/travel/security-screening/whatcanibring/items/lithium-batteries-more-100-watt-hours https://www.tsa.gov/travel/security-screening/whatcanibring/...). I think the airline crews are confident they can handle 100 watt-hours worth of burning, but no more than that!
- drjasonharrison 5y agoYou can't extinguish a lithium ion battery fire by smothering it. The fire creates its own oxygen. You can contain the fire, and you can immerse it in enough water that it cools below the burning temperature and shorts out through the water.
- dragontamer 5y agohttps://youtu.be/oa_yao1DC1U https://youtu.be/oa_yao1DC1U https://youtu.be/LCFsmHLDuyg https://youtu.be/LCFsmHLDuyg I'm not sure if they are smothering the fire. The strategy seems like it's just a safe place to keep the fire until later. You won't have buckets and buckets of water on an airplane. You need a solution to safely contain the fire and keep the passengers safe.