> We created Trontium to drive humanity forward
Startup people are fucking hilarious
Show HN: Trontium Reactor, the first USB Power Delivery battery
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Re: Show HN: Trontium Reactor, the first USB Power Delivery battery
#32How is this even legal, if it contains actual trontium? Who wants to walk around with a radioactive material in your pocket, irradiating your genitals? Scary idea.
trontium is not a name of a chemical.
If you look at the spec page it says "lithium-ion battery pack".
Re: Show HN: Trontium Reactor, the first USB Power Delivery battery
#33For $299 I can sure buy a lot of lithium ion batteries. There are already many such products out there that are very cheap. 290w/h is 58000 mah at 5v. I can buy a 11,000 mah pack for 29.99 on Amazon and surprise it weighs 1/4 the weight. Even if I bought 5 of them to equal the energy capacity it would be 1/2 the cost. (But it is not a REACTOR) There really is nothing novel at all about this product, and it is overpri…
It has three high power voltage converter circuits which are needed for it to support USB Power Delivery. Those are more expensive than the batteries and no other device has three of them.
Lithium-ion packs are measured at 3.7 volts, not 5.
Re: Show HN: Trontium Reactor, the first USB Power Delivery battery
#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't get the fanciness. Thorium reactors are a dead-end, as European research found out. They had stopped all work years ago. There were major accidents with this type of reactors and one even happened at the same time as the Chernobyl disaster: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernkraftwerk_THTR-300#St.C3.B6... For some reasons some countries don't want to learn from history. Edit: English language links: http://en.w…
For some reason users who post links don't want to read them. From the first paragraph: "Despite its designation as a thorium reactor , it was essentially a normal on uranium fission ( 235 U) based reactor" Additionally, a lot of the recent hype on thorium reactors is that they are actually molten salt reactors (see the oak ridge national lab experiments - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten-Salt_Reactor_Experiment )…
Also potentially safer failure mode: in a run-away vent, it heats up, melts through a plug in the reactor base and drains out into a settling pan, which stops the reaction dead.
The worst thing about modern nuclear power is we won't shut the old reactors the hell down, so when you get a Fukushima it's because at every junction proposals to replace it were held up, but no one would brook just shutting it down either.
Re: Show HN: Trontium Reactor, the first USB Power Delivery battery
#35Two things from the website : >We created Trontium to drive humanity forward Ok I cant discuss the reasons why you created trontium and driving humanity forward is indeed a great goal but wow this is just a (rather cool) battery. Plus I think the keyboard (a yamaha psr E403 I think) featured in the pictures is not usb powered. Other than that I'm impressed by the 8 charges you can make with the dewalt drill. Great to…
You're right. That keyboard is not USB powered. That's why we're making adapter cables. I'll be posting a tutorial on the site later today with pictures, but the general idea is that you can buy an adapter cable for whatever device you have and then set its voltage requirements in an app.
Re: Show HN: Trontium Reactor, the first USB Power Delivery battery
#36How is this even legal, if it contains actual trontium? Who wants to walk around with a radioactive material in your pocket, irradiating your genitals? Scary idea.
Wow, you have big pockets!
Re: Show HN: Trontium Reactor, the first USB Power Delivery battery
#37The interesting part here is that it uses the new USB "Power Delivery" standard, that can switch to 20V instead of the normal 5V. This allows up to 100W of power from one USB port. It could power laptops and other somewhat power hungry devices, once they have USB power input.
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
I always find it amusing when links provided by "nay sayers" present contrary evidence or no evidence at all. From the link: The nuclear power plant THTR-300 ( thorium high-temperature reactor) was a helium-cooled high-temperature reactor of the type pebble bed reactor in North Rhine-Westphalia Hamm with an electrical output of 300 megawatts . Despite its designation as a thorium reactor , it was essentially a normal…
Dear diary: My most bizarre moment on HN so far. Someone referenced my tiny (ugly) birth town in a discussion about energy. On topic: It didn't look impressive. :)
At least you didn't grow up in Ennigerloh and Beckum. T_T
Re: Show HN: Trontium Reactor, the first USB Power Delivery battery
#39Awww. I was really hoping it would be a nuclear reactor that I could buy and use to power my electrical devices forever. I've got to say I was quite disappointed to find it was just a large battery.
Re: Show HN: Trontium Reactor, the first USB Power Delivery battery
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't get the fanciness. Thorium reactors are a dead-end, as European research found out. They had stopped all work years ago. There were major accidents with this type of reactors and one even happened at the same time as the Chernobyl disaster: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernkraftwerk_THTR-300#St.C3.B6... For some reasons some countries don't want to learn from history. Edit: English language links: http://en.w…
I always find it amusing when links provided by "nay sayers" present contrary evidence or no evidence at all. From the link: The nuclear power plant THTR-300 ( thorium high-temperature reactor) was a helium-cooled high-temperature reactor of the type pebble bed reactor in North Rhine-Westphalia Hamm with an electrical output of 300 megawatts . Despite its designation as a thorium reactor , it was essentially a normal…
> While there was his nuclear fuel to 90 per cent of thorium, but this was holds less than 30 percent of its energy.
Hint: Maybe there was a reason for that? Like ... that was/is the best way to build a Thorium reactor? But yeah, the engineers were probably all monkeys. That must be the reason.