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New TSA regulations on flying with lithium batteries: [link]
The TSA has discovered that on January 1st, 2008 lithium batteries are going to become more dangerous than they were on December 31, 2007. Thankfully, they've taken action by forbidding them beginning in 2008.
Lithium Metal Battery, Spare or Installed (over 2 grams lithium):
In checked bag? Forbidden
Carry-on? Forbidden
Oh for fuck's sake. Does this effectively ban all laptops, iPods, cell phones, etc?
what the fuck? do they want people to stop flying altogether?
They are fucking insane.
Hey, my laptop screen is on. How weird. Yay?
I have a small crock pot that runs only on low. We made beans at my parents, but theirs has multiple settings, and I don't recall what we used. Need to ask my mom.
Do the TSA people even know that they're looking for!
Don't most laptops use lithium-ion batteries, not lithium metal batteries?
::off to google::
In the laptop it's OK, but you can't bring a spare? Apparently.
So I totally wasted the entire rest of the day after my modicum of productivity early. At least I've made excellent progress on getting all of the snacky food out of my apartment....
OK:
# Under the new rules, you can bring batteries with up to 8-gram equivalent lithium content. All lithium ion batteries in cell phones are below 8 gram equivalent lithium content. Nearly all laptop computers also are below this quantity threshold.
# You can also bring up to two spare batteries with an aggregate equivalent lithium content of up to 25 grams, in addition to any batteries that fall below the 8-gram threshold. Examples of two types of lithium ion batteries with equivalent lithium content over 8 grams but below 25 are shown below.
# For a lithium metal battery, whether installed in a device or carried as a spare, the limit on lithium content is 2 grams of lithium metal per battery.
# Almost all consumer-type lithium metal batteries are below 2 grams of lithium metal. But if you are unsure, contact the manufacturer!
So I guess we can still fly with most lithium batteries....
I have no faith in the actual enforcement of this. I foresee security folk with a lack of real info (the table isn't at all clear) confiscating left and right, letting the real targeted stuff through....
They'll probably end up confiscating CDs with Nirvana's "Lithium" on them....