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Elon Musk offers Boeing SpaceX batteries for the 787 Dreamliner
- mcherm 14y agoIt's more a publicity stunt than anything else, but it's a brilliant publicity stunt.
- snogglethorpe 14y agoOf course, this is fairly meaningless. What they need is not new batteries, what they need is to understand what went wrong with the old batteries (right now, they haven't the faintest idea). Not just to fix the problem, but so that the FAA understands the failure mode, and thus can do a better job when vetting future planes.