Yes, but could you make a bomb from a set of laptop batteries as easily as you could from a prepared liquid? That's the thing about prepared liquids, you can do

Yes, but could you make a bomb from a set of laptop batteries as easily as you could from a prepared liquid? That's the thing about prepared liquids, you can do all the chemical processing until the whole things is already practically a bomb. Regarding what happens to confiscated liquids, as the TSA person helpfully mentioned, they are working on a system to test liquids but they do not have one yet. If you think about the TSA requirements, they are not stupid after all. Personally I do not get why people complain about the TSA. After 9/11, when there were stories of the most terrible offenses against personal liberties, of people getting picked up on the streets and not seen or heard from again for years, the mainstream press did not utter a word. But when people are forced to give up their water bottle there is all sorts of bitching and complaints. Because the shared assumption is that only muslims get wisked away in the middle of the night not to be heard from again and that, while regretable, is something that we have to live with for our safety. But the waterbottle thing happens to everyone, so it cannot be tolerated!