Musk went through a detailed description of the battery problem on the plane.

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Since many innovations represent a solution to a technical problem, this approach often involved determining other industries (or other situations within the same industry) in which a similar problem arose, and then generalizing the description of the innovation so that it could be used in those other industries or situations.

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In short, nothing in the first section of the commission's mission description looks to the very problem David Kay said should be examined.

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