Comments by "Mikko Rantalainen" (@MikkoRantalainen) on "NEVER Check THIS Onto An Airplane!" video.

  1. 12:50 81000 lithium batteries is a huge pile. It's about equivalent to all the batteries for ten new Tesla Model S passanger cars. Having so much batteries in the cargo without required paperwork seems pretty insane!
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  2. Also remember that if you travel to somewhere and intend to bring your devices back during the return flight, you have to limit the amount of devices according to the requirements of the more limiting flight. If the flight are operated by different companies, the limits might be wildly different. You can only safely expect to be allowed to carry one phone and one laptop and even the laptop battery is limited to 99 Wh max capacity.
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  3. And it's also worth remembering that batteries are only going to get better in the future. Many companies are trying to manufacture solid state batteries which might solve all the fire hazard risks in cells currently in use. Nobody has been figured out economically viable way to manufacture competitive solid state batteries yet but there are multiple research projects going in parallel and it seems to be just matter of time until at least one solution can be found.
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