A tiny radioactive battery could keep your future phone running for 50 years::A glowing horizon for phones

  • Papanca@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    And now for 50 years worth of security updates for a phone like that. Not to mention what people might do with throwing a phone in the trash or something

    • Obinice@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      The EU are going to mandate removable batteries in phones, so I don’t see any reason you can’t take a standardised battery that lasts decades and swap it into your next phone, if they’re all designed properly with compatibility with this miracle battery in mind :-D

      • Papanca@lemmy.world
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        2 years ago

        Exactly; if Usually, it takes years, if not decades, before laws and regulations are actually in place

    • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      I’m not so optimistic.

      When ever we discover a new, much better power source, the cartel who is going to lose a shitton of business go on a smear campaign. Look at solar power. Look at electric cars. Hell, look at hemp.

      Companies would bury this so fast, and this tech would be a niche thing.

    • Siegfried@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      He got it right in a lot of aspects, partially because he didnt gave many details about certain stuff, but I remember a pretty good description of a nuclear powered e reader… if I remember it correctly, the nuclear part was a tiny nuclear reactor though

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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    2 years ago

    Battery scam #364256373

    I’m seeing at least 5 of these per week now, can we PLEASE stop this bullshit?

    Also, batteries from radioactive elements is one of the stupider ideas that has been floated around, sounds about at the same level as the thorium powered car.

    It would be so nice if tech sites could write about actual tech and not CGI bullshit dreamed up by a guy who really isn’t going to scam you, he just needs a little bit of start up capital for his Ferrari.

  • Boozilla@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Remember when folks wore watches with radioactive paint on them? Good times.

    • grayman@lemmy.worldBanned from community
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      2 years ago

      It was more a problem of licking the little brushes than wearing the teeny bit on the wrist.

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    2 years ago

    Some of the people here don’t realize that our smoke detectors have radioactive elements inside it

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      2 years ago

      Depends, in my country ionization detectors have been banned over 20 years ago, you’ll mostly find optical / photoelectric detectors here.

    • Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      Some people havent read the article where it states they use radioactive batteries like this in pacemakers and that there is no external radiation from the battery.

  • hark@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    I’ve heard of these kinds of batteries before and it’d be cool to have long-running electronics, but would these produce enough power?