Here’s the real issue with the bs fluff title and complete fabrication of what these can be used for. It says in the article the battery makes 100 microwatts at 3v. Well that’s an insanely small wattage. Your phone requires like 2 to 10 watts when youre on it. Regular watts.
One single watt is 1,000,000 microwatts. It would take 10,000 of these radioactive 50 year batteries ran together in parallel for just a watt of power. You’d need like 100,000 of them in your phone to cover all power requirements.
Person264@lemmings.world 11 months ago
The radioactive source isn’t used for power in smoke detectors, it’s used to detect smoke. What small scale devices use radioactivity actually for power?
terminhell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
My grampa had a pacemaker that was.
Person264@lemmings.world 11 months ago
That is well cool
NESSI3@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
That is awesome