I get that they are confident they can produce more power, but usually these diamond/nuclear batteries produce really small amount of power.
A tiny radioactive battery could keep your future phone running for 50 years
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#12Why 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.
Re: A tiny radioactive battery could keep your future phone running for 50 years
#13Why 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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#14A couple years in: "We really have no explanation for the rapid increase in cervical and testicular cancers."
Re: A tiny radioactive battery could keep your future phone running for 50 years
#15But 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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#16The nuclear process can most likely not be controlled, and will just provide energy the whole day long. A small sidecar battery may hold charge for peak usage, but still the nuclear battery have to churn atoms all the time to provide the mean power. And the conversion process usually is not very efficient either (but I don't see numbers for this particular device).
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#17Just sounds like using something with a longer half life.
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#18Also 50 Ci is an awful lot of activity to produce 100 µW. Being anywhere near a hypothetical 1W version would be quite scary.
Re: A tiny radioactive battery could keep your future phone running for 50 years
#19But the screen cracked 49 years ago. It stopped getting OS updates 48 years ago. And the 5G towers got deprecated 40 years ago.