[HN Gopher] Airlines to ban use of lithium power banks
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       Airlines to ban use of lithium power banks
        
       Author : mryall
       Score  : 10 points
       Date   : 2025-11-20 21:58 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.abc.net.au)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.abc.net.au)
        
       | AtlasBarfed wrote:
       | Isn't LFP dense enough for power banks now? And far more
       | stable/safe?
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       | Heck, isn't Sodium Ion getting good enough now?
        
       | JumpinJack_Cash wrote:
       | Meanwhile you can carry a nuclear bomb on a train and nobody even
       | bothers to check id or ticket up until you are on board.
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       | Irrational fear of flight strikes again, it's a very long list
       | actually of standards that aviation has to comply with in order
       | to exist because people are irrationally fearful about being
       | suspended mid air.
       | 
       | It's the same thing for nuclear
        
         | poemxo wrote:
         | Most people don't have nuclear bombs.
        
           | JumpinJack_Cash wrote:
           | Yes but what I mean is that nobody checks anything
        
       | lisbbb wrote:
       | Doesn't every cell phone have a highly volatile, made in China
       | battery in it as well? What if they started banning smartphones
       | on flights! Oh the humanity!
        
       | Workaccount2 wrote:
       | >five in-flight fires involving power banks on Australian or
       | Australian-registered aircraft since 2016.
       | 
       | So about one every two years. Better ban everything with a
       | battery before this gets out of control.../s
        
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