A glowing horizon for phones

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

    • pelya@lemmy.worldEnglish
      50·
      8 months ago

      At this moment, 1 gram of radioactive Nickel-63 costs around 4,000 USD. Nickel-63 isotope does not occur in nature, it is obtained by irradiating Nickel-62 inside a nuclear reactor.

      • hglman@lemmy.mlEnglish
        92·
        8 months ago

        The world needs breeder reactors anyways, build out a lot of gen 4 plants and make Nickle-63 to boot.

    • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.netEnglish
      262·
      8 months ago

      What happens when the casing get punctured? When you mass produce these devices these things will happen.

      • Justin@lemmy.jlh.nameEnglish
        14·
        8 months ago

        Probably the same as with tritium lumes. Only dangerous if you swallow the unshielded nickel.

      • bitwolf@lemmy.oneEnglish
        101·
        8 months ago

        Surely the battery itself would have sufficient protection on top of the devices chassis offering protection.

        I can’t say a Lithium Ion battery leaking in the body would bode very either.