New U.S. Fed Spare Battery Travel Rules Starting January 1, 2008

The U.S. Department of Transportation has new rules regarding to traveling with spare Lithium-Ion batteries that go into effect on Jan. 1, 2008. Check out the…

SafeTravel.dot.gov

…site for the details.

I wonder how much variability there will be among TSA screeners looking at items like spare notebook computer batteries, spare digital camera batteries, and my power workhorse the APC Mobile Power Pack (see photo above)?