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    PETN-ion batteries, such hot tech right now.

    They are even talking about using it in electric cars to vastly increase the (vertical) range they can do.

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      It wasn’t the batteries, the pagers were powered using standard double AA batteries. It was implanted bombs.

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        How do you overheat a standard AA battery? Just by shorting it?

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          You physically can’t, unless you have a defective battery or you short the wiring, but that’s oblivious as soon as you insert the battery. Overheating a double a battery also won’t do much. Is it dangerous? Yes. But it won’t be a violent explosion.

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        Pushing it to the limits it wasn’t designed for - some might even break down :D