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Applied Sensemaking: Why Battery Fire Safety on Airplanes Is Backwards
Lithium battery fires on airplanes are rare. When they happen, they're dangerous, disruptive, and costly. What's interesting is how we've chosen to deal with that risk.
The aviation safety strategy what to do after a device is on fire — containment bags, emergency procedures, and diversion. Those measures work. They're also fundamentally reactive.
In this episode, I offer a clean way to think about the problem. Using lithium battery fires as a case study, we'll examine:
What actually causes lithium battery fires (thermal runaway)
Why phone and laptop batteries fail in predictable ways
How…
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