Virgin and Qantas to ban use of portable power banks after string of fires
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Re: Virgin and Qantas to ban use of portable power banks after string of fires
#2Isn't LFP dense enough for power banks now? And far more stable/safe?
Heck, isn't Sodium Ion getting good enough now?
Re: Virgin and Qantas to ban use of portable power banks after string of fires
#3Meanwhile you can carry a nuclear bomb on a train and nobody even bothers to check the id or ticket up until you are on board.
Irrational fear of flight strikes again, it's a very long list actually of standards that aviation has to comply with in order not to thrive but to merely exist , all because people are irrationally fearful about being suspended mid air.
It's the same thing for nuclear
Re: Virgin and Qantas to ban use of portable power banks after string of fires
#4Meanwhile you can carry a nuclear bomb on a train and nobody even bothers to check the id or ticket up until you are on board. Irrational fear of flight strikes again, it's a very long list actually of standards that aviation has to comply with in order not to thrive but to merely exist , all because people are irrationally fearful about being suspended mid air. It's the same thing for nuclear
Most people don't have nuclear bombs.
Re: Virgin and Qantas to ban use of portable power banks after string of fires
#5Doesn't every cell phone have a highly volatile, made in China battery in it as well? What if they started banning smartphones on flights! Oh the humanity!
Re: Virgin and Qantas to ban use of portable power banks after string of fires
#6Meanwhile you can carry a nuclear bomb on a train and nobody even bothers to check the id or ticket up until you are on board. Irrational fear of flight strikes again, it's a very long list actually of standards that aviation has to comply with in order not to thrive but to merely exist , all because people are irrationally fearful about being suspended mid air. It's the same thing for nuclear
Most people don't have nuclear bombs.
Yes but what I mean is that nobody checks anything
Re: Virgin and Qantas to ban use of portable power banks after string of fires
#7>five in-flight fires involving power banks on Australian or Australian-registered aircraft since 2016.
So about one every two years. Better ban everything with a battery before this gets out of control.../s
Re: Virgin and Qantas to ban use of portable power banks after string of fires
#8Meanwhile you can carry a nuclear bomb on a train and nobody even bothers to check the id or ticket up until you are on board. Irrational fear of flight strikes again, it's a very long list actually of standards that aviation has to comply with in order not to thrive but to merely exist , all because people are irrationally fearful about being suspended mid air. It's the same thing for nuclear
A train can go from "cruising speed" to letting passengers off to escape a fire in about a minute.
A plane might take anywhere from five minutes to several hours to be able to safely let passengers out.
Personally I feel that's a good enough reason to impose more robust restrictions on Things Which May Cause Fire on planes compared to trains. Especially in the case of lithium batteries where they're more or less impossible to extinguish one they're going.
Re: Virgin and Qantas to ban use of portable power banks after string of fires
#9Meanwhile you can carry a nuclear bomb on a train and nobody even bothers to check the id or ticket up until you are on board. Irrational fear of flight strikes again, it's a very long list actually of standards that aviation has to comply with in order not to thrive but to merely exist , all because people are irrationally fearful about being suspended mid air. It's the same thing for nuclear
A train can go from "cruising speed" to letting passengers off to escape a fire in about a minute. A plane might take anywhere from five minutes to several hours to be able to safely let passengers out. Personally I feel that's a good enough reason to impose more robust restrictions on Things Which May Cause Fire on planes compared to trains. Especially in the case of lithium batteries where they're more or less impo…
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Re: Virgin and Qantas to ban use of portable power banks after string of fires
#10The title is misleading unless you read it carefully.
They are not banning bringing power banks, they are banning using power banks. On the plane you have to keep the power bank on your person, but not use it.
This would be a lot more defensible if they had high-power USB-C ports by every seat.