Sentences with phrase «even aircraft safety»

Today blockchains are being used to building services on smart contracts, digital identity solutions, cloud storage, voting systems, and even aircraft safety.

Not exact matches

Specific safety concerns include: (1) Lithium batteries pose both a chemical and electrical hazard — under certain conditions they can overheat and ignite and, once ignited, can be especially difficult to extinguish; (2) the potential for propagation of thermal runaway between cells or batteries in a package and between adjacent packages of batteries; (3) the potential for uncontrolled lithium battery fires to overwhelm the capability of existing aircraft cargo fire protection systems, leading to a catastrophic failure of the airframe; and (4) the potential for venting of combustible gases from lithium ion cells in thermal runaway, which could collect in an enclosed environment and cause an explosion even in the presence of a suppression agent.

Even as well as the physics of flight and aircraft structures are known, you would not want fly in an aircraft that was designed literally on that science, without a significant factor of safety (1.5, by FAA regulation).

Even the successes of everyday engineering such as bridge and aircraft construction owe much to the use of safety factors, which engineers have discovered and refined over time by watching similar projects fail repeatedly.