Would it be possible to use a beta voltaic tritium battery which has a low power curve to charge little-by-little a lithium ion battery while it's not being used.
let's say I wanted to charge my laptop battery while my laptop was turned off would it be possible to implement nuclear power like this?
Trickle charge laptop with nuclear battery
Adam Wright
Lincoln Taylor
one, no. even batteries and the lines to it have some resistance and it's "lost" there before charging anything.
many, probably.
Caleb Wright
How many terrorist watchlists would you get added to for buying this?
Leo Hernandez
how about using capacitors in series and sequentially discharging them to charge a battery for a sustained period of time ?
Matthew Nelson
since tritium can't be weaponized And is used in pacemakers I doubt you would get any attention
Benjamin Butler
this is pretty much already how a powersupply works
look into switching supply
Jason Lopez
I want a single core ARM phone with e-ink display powered by this.
Should be enough for sms and whatsapp and googling shit in wikipedia.
Josiah Wright
initially, I think I should have mentioned that batteries like this usually last for 20 years
with the power decreasing steadily over time.
there is a new type of nuclear battery called a carbon Diamond battery which lasts for 6000 years but that is just theoretical
James Butler
No. Those are in the microamp range. Say ~200uA, that mean it could charge A 3000mAh phone battery in 570 years.
That's not how resistance works. It doesn't eat up all the energy just because it's low amperage.
Yes you could.
Xavier Diaz
you admit it, it's possible
Connor Brooks
>energy.gov
>Vmax: 2.4 V
>Imax: ~60nA
you'd need over 300000000 of them just to power a regular laptop cpu
>4500$ for the 2.4V model
forget it
Camden Mitchell
the op image generates a maximum of 350 nanoamps open-circuit, and it can do 2.4v closed-circuit.
the rating in watts of a bigger P200 from the same company is 100 microwatts.
honestly, i'd be fairly impressed if you could run an fpga off of one of these, and they ADVERTISE that that's possible.
Adam Diaz
Yes. It's just that the power charged would be negligible.
Hudson Watson
Since we can't reliably steal nuclear power it is expensive.
Jayden Robinson
You're severely overestimating how much power those things produce. Theoretically yes you could charge a battery with one, but it will take weeks before any significant charge builds up.
citylabs.net
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Oliver Turner
>energy.gov
"Suitable for low power robust applications
(nanoWatts - microWatts)
Power burst via secondary trickle charging
(milliWatt – Watts)"
Michael Reed
You really think your 3Ah battery would store whatever minuscule amount of power you trickle into it for 570 years?
Kayden Gray
its nuclear waste and another man's trash is another man's treasure but It's a bit expensive I bought a tritium vial for like $15 and it was barely 10 millimeters
Isaiah Turner
yes
Grayson Fisher
Fun fact: over it's 20 year lifetime, this thing can output 0.96768Wh.
That's as much energy as a fully charged 261mAh battery.
In other words, this thing is useless for anything except the lowest of power applications, that you want to run for several years.
Robert Williams
>261mAh battery.
Lipo battery*
Kayden Martinez
idk, could you power a clock or a wristwatch with it at the very least? That'd be cool.
Joshua Wilson
This thing's current output is measured in nanoamps, user. Even a Casio wristwatch requires orders of magnitude more current than that.
Adrian Long
fuckin' hell.
what the fuck COULD you even use it for then??
what industrial purpose would it even serve if it provides that little electricity? I mean shit could I just scale it up to the point where it could provide enough electricity to power a shitty digital clock? if I can do it with a fucking potato, I'd hope I can do it with a big ass box full of tritium
Oliver Watson
Sure, but the quantity required and it's volume would make it entirely impractical.
You realize many satellites and rovers use them?
Carter Robinson
kek
Jack Lewis
Pacemakers are one the major applications they cover.
You would need hundreds of thousands of these devices to power a digital clock.
Easton Robinson
>load some jewish newspaper
>2MB of javascript
>500kWh used up in one second
Jose Brooks
maybe a super low power range finder
Henry Harris
I think similar devices only much bigger are used in satellites. They need to operate in extremely cold temperatures and for ~20 years where say a lipo battery wouldn't be viable. It's probably enough to keep some systems online when solar isn't available.
Dylan Long
Powering tiny SRAM modules which contain encryption keys.
Anthony Lee
from the website data
this is how much energy you'd get out of the chip in Wy.
-0.000173123 e^(-0.0577623 t) + 0.000173123
your battery will be charged to ~4% after 1 year, ~45% after 10, after 20 to ~60%. this assumes no leaks.
Gabriel Torres
>capacitors
super capacitors
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