A tiny radioactive battery could keep your future phone running for 50 years::A glowing horizon for phones
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
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
Exactly; if Usually, it takes years, if not decades, before laws and regulations are actually in place
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.
Like a phone would last 50 years.
A tiny radioactive battery could keep a piece of e-waste using power for 48 years
Generating power…
Sounds like alot of infertility and ass cancer in the future… lets see how this plays out
How long can it power a disposable vape? Lol jk
Finally, Asimov got it right
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
Nuclear power at small scale is already in use in devices. Some medical devices, smoke detectors etc. As long as there is proper shielding, the enclosure is robust enough, and the overall device is made easily serviceable, I’m all for it. I can understand the fear sentiment of anything flagged as radioactive, but radiation is all around us already. Idk, but the less we can ditch super toxic and explosive lithium the better.
Remember when folks wore watches with radioactive paint on them? Good times.
It was more a problem of licking the little brushes than wearing the teeny bit on the wrist.
Some of the people here don’t realize that our smoke detectors have radioactive elements inside it
Depends, in my country ionization detectors have been banned over 20 years ago, you’ll mostly find optical / photoelectric detectors here.
I wonder if its because of a valid reason, or just a precaution
It’s probably safe until someone decides to go look what’s inside their smoke detector
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.
Yeah. Sure.
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?
Not last I saw. They produce way too little power at that scale.
life steal battery because of the radiation! /j
I see no downside whatsoever.
