richard luxo nose the chemistry of the battery.e the most powerful, but the most volatile. >> they went to lithium cobalt, which is way up here for danger. >> luxo stepped down as secure plane president before the fire, and started a new company to make lithium-ion batteries for business jets. he was a true believer in the technology. then he began testing. >> 2.3 amp power series battery pack bullet test. >> luxo went behind the latest industry guidelines, going so far as to fire bullets into bat rice to see if -- batteries to see if they could be made safe for military applications. >> you can run and feel you meet the requirements to be safe. you also need to have a conscience. that's going to tell you "i want to do the extreme." >> in the end, testing with a conscience - luxo couldn't make the batteries meet the requirements. his new company failed. >> we became proficient in destroying batteries. and the more we learnt about it, the worse we got. oh, my god. we were saying "i wonder what the rest of the guys were doing." i gue