A tiny radioactive battery could keep your future phone running for 50 years
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#2"A tiny radioactive battery could keep your future phone running for 50 years"
Phone OS developers: Challenge accepted.
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#3“Warning: no user serviceable parts inside. Void if opened. Drop and run”
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#4"A tiny radioactive battery could keep your future phone running for 50 years" Phone OS developers: Challenge accepted.
I bet they will make the whole phone disposable too. Battery dead? That will be $10,000 inflation adjusted please, we haven’t sold a charger in 40 years.
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#5A couple years in: "We really have no explanation for the rapid increase in cervical and testicular cancers."
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#690% of the people I know keep their near their head, near the genitals or near their heart when not actively using it. I read the part about them asserting that it's safe, but if they want this to actually sell without a major stigma, especially in the era of social media, they will need to go out of their way to prove it.
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#7>Betavolt says that after it has decayed the 63 nuclear isotopes become copper, which would be non-radioactive and not cause any environmental threat.
Well, what happens when you throw the non-decayed thing in a firepit or run it through a wood chipper?
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#8But the screen cracked 49 years ago. It stopped getting OS updates 48 years ago. And the 5G towers got deprecated 40 years ago.
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#9Why phones? I want nuclear powered electric vehicles. If you could even get an EV with the performance of a Prius that never needed gas or a charge for 250,000 miles, that would be a major accomplishment.
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#10100 microwatts - I can't imagine a phone idles on that. About 36 microamps at 3.6 volts.
> less than a coin at 15 x 15 x 5mm
Slightly smaller than a stack of four US dimes.