Comment on Coin-sized nuclear 3V battery with 50-year lifespan enters mass production

• cubism_pitta@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Cell != Battery

  Battery = MANY Cells

  I am not correcting you just hate the headline.

  If you made a battery with 666(667 if we round up) of these you could supply 2ma of power at 3v for 50 years!

  I don’t have sizes available so assuming 2032 sized batteries… If you stacked them that would be over 2meters tall.

  With further advancement these could be viable

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• sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Why not?

  A CR2032 has 235 mAh, which I believe Casio watches use, and their batteries last 5-7 years. So, if we divide that out, that’s something like 5-6 microamps (235 mAh / 5 years / 365 years / 24 hours * 1000 = 5.36… microamps). Converting this to watts @ 3v: 15-18 microwatts.

  I think that math is correct (this question reaches a similar conclusion), and it leaves some headroom as well.

  If you remove RF from the equation (Bluetooth, WiFi, etc), you can get some very low power draws. If all you’re doing is sampling temps or something, you could send an update periodically over serial or something and fit under 100microwatts or so. You could probably even do RF if you have a large enough cap and send once it charges.

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  • ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    CR2032s are used in many things that require significantly more power than that, and this cell is absolutely unfit for almost all other uses than barebones old school digital watches.

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Sure. I’m not saying it’s a drop-in replacement, just that it has a number of applications. A simple digital watch or even a bare bones IOT device (with periodic serial signaling) could work well with it. You’d essentially set it up once and you’ll forget it’s still there many years later.

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