Comment on A tiny radioactive battery could keep your future phone running for 50 years
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months agoHere’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.
terminhell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
So, you’re saying there’s a chance :p
The sentiment for me here, is any overall betterment of portable power is good. Yea the article and this specific tech is presented in an overhyped fashion, no doubt.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
Well the other thing is that this company didn’t even do anything new. This battery type/concept has been used for decades. They’ve had pacemakers with em since the 1970’s.