China develops radioactive battery to keep your phone charged for 50 years

The Business Standard ^ | 14 January, 2024, 11:15 am Last modified: 19 January, 2024, 02:15 pm | Md Tajul Islam

[Red Badger]

😜👌.............................

[George from New England]

The battery that irradiates you to outlive you.

[wgmalabama]

With a current 25-40% trans rate, does it matter to them?

[NWFree]

Because cell phones last 50 years before they force you to get an upgrade

[fidelis]

Jesus

Blessed be his Holy Name. Amen.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Everything out of China is designed to kill you.

[roving]

We are recycling in my city, and our trash collectors got busted mixing the recyclables in with the regular trash.

[Mariner]

63 Nickel is not easy to come by and is super expensive.

https://www.ornl.gov/news/making-radioactive-63ni-target-explosives

[EastTexasTraveler]

A side benefit is that you can always find your phone at night since it glows in the dark.

[Wuli]

And our DARPA scientists have been developing what? More woke rules for the scientists?

[Organic Panic]

Something like that is on the voyagers

[AlaskaErik]

There goes the “Sorry but I have to hang up. My phone is about to die.” excuse.

[marktwain]

If it actually works, a wonderful thing with lots of applications.

It is a long way from the lab to commercial uses.

[SaxxonWoods]

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Who cares about an easily charged phone?
Let me know when they can keep a car charged for just 50 lousy days!

[Red Badger]

All the physicists say no way...............China is pulling our leg...............

[Red Badger]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VHVJnGmRdw

[Yardstick]

Energizer Bunny better learn to code...

[Bob434]

[[The radioactive nickel decays into non-radioactive copper............]]

Alchemy I tell ya! Now if only they could get it to decay into gold or platinum- we’d be godlen

[marktwain]

Interesting and informed analysis.

Thanks

[AnotherUnixGeek]

There’s really no need for a battery that will outlive the device it’s meant to charge. But the idea of using radiation to power batteries is an interesting one - the application to EVs would remove a lot of the objections I have to EVs.