Nor is photothermal ablation the only way of heat-treating cancer cells.
Boeing must now find a way to reduce the potential for heat propagating throughout the battery, perhaps by moving the cells further apart or adding more heat sensors.
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Laboratory tests have shown that such events can prompt nearby cells to quickly heat up and result in a fierce, high-temperature fire engulfing the battery and anything nearby.
Say, LED bulbs, combined heat and power boilers, fuel cells, whatever.
Flash memory is being used as an acceleration layer in many enterprise applications and recent announcements by Macronix indicate that the write life endurance for flash memory cells can be increased considerably by locally exposing NAND flash memory cells to a high heat (about 800 C).
Thus concentrated, it shakes cells so violently that they heat up.
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When co-generating heat and electricity, solid oxide fuel cells can reach combined efficiencies upwards of 85%, which is excellent, but no word yet whether or not the Bloom fuel cell will co-generate heat.
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Generators powered by fuel cells quietly whir and produce half the heat of diesel as they combine hydrogen with air to create electricity.
The closest thing to LED photomodulation is a controversial procedure called nonablative laser treatment, which uses heat to burn away subsurface skin so that new cells will replace it.
Further, Boeing's indications that heat damage in one battery cell would not harm adjacent cells proved false, Hersman said.
For example, physically separating each of the cells would make it easier to vent the heat that each one generates.
In the early 1990s a scientist at the National Cancer Institute had discovered that an already-existing molecule clings to a receptor on heat-shock proteins, preventing the survival of cancer cells.
The advantage of solid oxide fuel cells running so hot is that all that waste heat can potentially be put to good use.
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The closest thing out there to LED photomodulation is a controversial procedure called nonablative laser treatment, which uses heat to burn away sub-surface skin so that new cells will replace it.
The vaccine works -- he hopes -- by targeting something called a heat-shock protein, which is produced in high quantity by tumor cells.
And when they heat up, so the theory goes, they will cauterise any nearby cancer cells.
"It highlights the idea that electromagnetic radiation might act on cells by affecting the attractive forces between them rather than simply causing heat damage to tissue, " she said.
And fuel cells are more efficient than internal combustion engines because they do not create as much unused heat.
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