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.
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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....
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....
Yeah. Given how paranoid some TSA agents are about *hand lotion*, I can only imagine how they're going to behave around batteries...
They'll probably end up confiscating CDs with Nirvana's "Lithium" on them....
Heh.
You can always look innocently at the person and say "oh, it doesn't run on batteries, it runs on electricity" and hope that they go for it.