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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    11 months 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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      11 months 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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        11 months 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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      11 months 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.