Nuclear Powered Batteries Closer To Reality

good finally a battery that wont run out.

pcrisp07 said:
good finally a battery that wont run out.

But will leave you sterile.

sweet, no more pulling out! 😁

rofl. thats one of the funniest things ive heard on these forums 🤣

OMG! ROFLMAO!

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If i'm lucky, I may wind up with super powers. that'd be alright.

KnifeySpooney said:
If i'm lucky, I may wind up with super powers. that'd be alright.

You may want to mix in a gamma-irradiated spider somewhere.

and with cancerous tumors, but its worth it though for a battery that lasts. LOL

pcrisp07 said:
and with cancerous tumors, but its worth it though for a battery that lasts. LOL

Haven't you funny ideas about cancerous tumors.

Lets give it to Nextel18.

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DDA said:
Lets give it to Nextel18.

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Oh, that's horrible. But funny.

I think my point being that nuclear powered batteries are possibly the dumbest idea ever. I can imagine their uses in the industrial or governmental sectors...but on a common, commercial level? Where idiots and terrorists can get ahold of them and subvert these things through stupidity or plain maliciousness? No thanks.

muchdrama said:

DDA said:
Lets give it to Nextel18.

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Oh, that's horrible. But funny.

I think my point being that nuclear powered batteries are possibly the dumbest idea ever. I can imagine their uses in the industrial or governmental sectors...but on a common, commercial level? Where idiots and terrorists can get ahold of them and subvert these things through stupidity or plain maliciousness? No thanks.

Oh, come on. You know those batteries won't be released until Bush's 1984 Social Cleansing policy is well under way. By that time, there won't be any terrorists. Or freethinkers. Or Forums... 😕
Yikes.
Yay for neoconservatism!!! 😁
Where is my NUKIA N seri...
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Talk about over dramatic... 🙄

Rathrok said:
Talk about over dramatic... 🙄

Talk about not getting a joke... 🙄

Lol, thats funny, but somewhat true

Bush= 😈

😳! Oh No terrorist are everywhere! Give me a break. Its a crying shame how terrified and idiotic they have made us. I'm not ready to surrender my free thoughts for a make shift way of thinking. f outta here!

Yeah, that's why a 16 year old kid was able to make a nuclear reactor out of the small amounts of isotopes in fire alarms and old paint. It's not that we're afraid of this happening, it's just that where there's a will, there's a way and we're just giving people a way to mess with nuclear material on a silver platter. Stupid people and people willing to sacrifice anything to make people afraid should not have such easy access to this kind of technology.

Which kid figured out this now? And when?

I'll worry when they figure out how to miraculously squeeze a nuclear blast out of vastly subcritical masses of barely radioactive materials. Since this presently violates our current understanding of physics, I remain rather underwhelmed. 😛

Nextel18 is just a little fish in a big sea, he wants to feel important and likes everybody thinking he knows everything, he is harmless, just a lonely sales rep, as long as we continue to humor him he should bo ok 😉

jwbass1985 said:
Somehow I doubt that...we'll all have to use tongs and hazmat suits be around them...LOL

One more way to irradiate, atomize, or otherwise kill ourselves. Go human race!

I can see 1,000 years from now people will be saying, "Our forfathers invented the battery to benifit man-kind, however it brought about the downfall of civilization." What other bright ideas can people think of?

I'm having an image of Old New York (Futurama)

What no optimism, imagine the potential.

Fully electrical cars that go 2000 miles with out a charge, limitless space travel.

Cell batteries could be the first step.

Back in the 1400's nobody wanted to travel the oceans because they thought they would fall off the edge. If they kept attitude we probably wouldn't have cell phones.

VOLVORacr said:
What no optimism, imagine the potential.

Fully electrical cars that go 2000 miles with out a charge, limitless space travel.

Cell batteries could be the first step.

Back in the 1400's nobody wanted to travel the oceans because they thought they would fall off the edge. If they kept attitude we probably wouldn't have cell phones.

Ocean = Scurvy...Cure: Citrus

Radiation = Cancer...Cure: More Radiation?

Have you never heard of people with cancer going for radiation treatment?

wfine81 said:
Have you never heard of people with cancer going for radiation treatment?

that's my point

Are you serious? 😲 😕

Dyingunman said:

VOLVORacr said:
What no optimism, imagine the potential.

Fully electrical cars that go 2000 miles with out a charge, limitless space travel.

Cell batteries could be the first step.

Back in the 1400's nobody wanted to travel the oceans because they thought they would fall off the edge. If they kept attitude we probably wouldn't have cell phones.

Ocean = Scurvy...Cure: Citrus

Radiation = Cancer...Cure: More Radiation?

Oh, that's like the best post I've read in months.

VOLVORacr said:
What no optimism, imagine the potential.

Fully electrical cars that go 2000 miles with out a charge, limitless space travel.

Cell batteries could be the first step.

Back in the 1400's nobody wanted to travel the oceans because they thought they would fall off the edge. If they kept attitude we probably wouldn't have cell phones.

All that glorious power crammed into a battery with the half-life of a hydrogen bomb. Like I said, I'll pass.

The stupidity and thickheadedness of the humand race never ceases to amaze me. You get more radiation from drinking TAP WATER than you will probably ever recieve from using a cell phone. Cooking in the kitchen with a microwave, BEING OUTSIDE IN THE SUN. All of these emit radiation and guess what, your skin absorbs it. And chances are that the power that turns your lights on comes from, yup, you guessed it, a nuclear power plant. As soon as the word nuclear is said everybody always says oh no, not nuclear, thats dangerous. Well, so is picking your nose while you drive, but how many people die from that? probably alot more than die from radiation poisioning each year. Fact is that just because something is radioactive or powered by nuc...
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Unless you're drinking your tap water with your head inside a running microwave, you are not getting more radiation from drinking than from using your cell. What do you think is emitted from your cell phone?? Though it much lower power than a microwave oven, it is still emitting... micro-waves. I am not one of those people you see with there cell phone attached to their ear, so I don't care about the "danger" of cell phones. But you have to wonder down the road about the people who have it attached..

most people that use their phones alot use a headset, so they phone is never reaally near the head. And yes, you do absorb radiation from drinking tap water. Radium and other elements have shown that drinking tap water can lead to cancer, miscarages in pregnant women, and other assorted illnesses. This of course varies from area to area, but I cannot find any legitimate documented sickness in humans as a result of using a cellphone. Now before going completely off topic, I was stating that It's crazy about how fast people shun something powered by something radioactive, when in fact they subject themselves to much worse conditions on a daily basis!

PooFlinger1 said:
most people that use their phones alot use a headset, so they phone is never reaally near the head. And yes, you do absorb radiation from drinking tap water. Radium and other elements have shown that drinking tap water can lead to cancer, miscarages in pregnant women, and other assorted illnesses. This of course varies from area to area, but I cannot find any legitimate documented sickness in humans as a result of using a cellphone. Now before going completely off topic, I was stating that It's crazy about how fast people shun something powered by something radioactive, when in fact they subject themselves to much worse conditions on a daily basis!

Those folks that have a headset plastere...
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muchdrama said:

PooFlinger1 said:
most people that use their phones alot use a headset, so they phone is never reaally near the head. And yes, you do absorb radiation from drinking tap water. Radium and other elements have shown that drinking tap water can lead to cancer, miscarages in pregnant women, and other assorted illnesses. This of course varies from area to area, but I cannot find any legitimate documented sickness in humans as a result of using a cellphone. Now before going completely off topic, I was stating that It's crazy about how fast people shun something powered by something radioactive, when in fact they subject themselves to much worse conditions on a daily basis!

Thos

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Funny you mention that. I believe there is a study out there, that shows it may infact do that. I'll have to dig around when I am at home and post a link.

Rathrok said:
Funny you mention that. I believe there is a study out there, that shows it may infact do that. I'll have to dig around when I am at home and post a link.

Oh, geeze...here I am jesting, and I've been lugging around my cell in my left pocket for 3 years. Greeeeeeeeeeat.

muchdrama said:

Rathrok said:
Funny you mention that. I believe there is a study out there, that shows it may infact do that. I'll have to dig around when I am at home and post a link.

Oh, geeze...here I am jesting, and I've been lugging around my cell in my left pocket for 3 years. Greeeeeeeeeeat.

Well, at least whatever kids you do have will all be right handed... 😳 🤣

...or right flippered... 😎

stapling the my phone to my face was the worst decision i ever made .. it turned my eyes blue

Amen!

I like the way you think. The truth of the matter is so many people whine and moan about the consumption of petrolium based fuels, then when we get a real alternative, they whine some more. This power source is much more attractive to me than hydrogen power, yea lets deplete our water to power our cars and light up our cell phones. Good thinking Einstine.

Low level nuclear power is much cleaner and safer than coal, or oil, or guns. Oh and all the stupidness about terrorist attacks. What was the wepon of choice of the last big attack??? oh thats right box cutters and really big airplanes. Don't you think we should regulate that first?

Back to the topic at hand, I see this as spawning a new type of cell phone that we have not s...
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amosjones said:
I like the way you think. The truth of the matter is so many people whine and moan about the consumption of petrolium based fuels, then when we get a real alternative, they whine some more. This power source is much more attractive to me than hydrogen power, yea lets deplete our water to power our cars and light up our cell phones. Good thinking Einstine.

Looks like these ones use tritium... hydrogen isotope. Water still enters into the picture somewhere (probably heavy water, as tritium is currently only produced as a biproduct of nuclear fission).

These things are an alternative to current batteries, not to fossil fuels. These cells might have endurance, but they only produce that...
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PooFlinger1 said:
The stupidity and thickheadedness of the humand race never ceases to amaze me. You get more radiation from drinking TAP WATER than you will probably ever recieve from using a cell phone. Cooking in the kitchen with a microwave, BEING OUTSIDE IN THE SUN. All of these emit radiation and guess what, your skin absorbs it. And chances are that the power that turns your lights on comes from, yup, you guessed it, a nuclear power plant. As soon as the word nuclear is said everybody always says oh no, not nuclear, thats dangerous. Well, so is picking your nose while you drive, but how many people die from that? probably alot more than die from radiation poisioning each year. Fact is that just because some

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According to the article, the nuclear battery uses a rare hydrogen isotope, tritium, or hydrogen-3 (cf. deuterium, hydrogen-2). It's both easily manufactured by bombarding lithium-6 atoms, and it's also a bi-product of nuclear explosions and power-producing reactors. It also occurs naturally in trace amounts in the atmosphere and ends up in our tap-water. Chances are, we've got some in our body right now.

The half-life's about 12, 13 years, meaning it breaks down rather quickly. It's also the least dangerous radioactive substances. Getting cancer from tritium would be like the rat who gets cancer from being pumped with nutrasweet: you'd need to have your body filled with an unproportioned amount of highly tritiated water for weeks on end ...
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Echternacht said:
According to the article, the nuclear battery uses a rare hydrogen isotope, tritium, or hydrogen-3 (cf. deuterium, hydrogen-2). It's both easily manufactured by bombarding lithium-6 atoms, and it's also a bi-product of nuclear explosions and power-producing reactors. It also occurs naturally in trace amounts in the atmosphere and ends up in our tap-water. Chances are, we've got some in our body right now.

The half-life's about 12, 13 years, meaning it breaks down rather quickly. It's also the least dangerous radioactive substances. Getting cancer from tritium would be like the rat who gets cancer from being pumped with nutrasweet: you'd need to have your body filled with an unproportioned amount of hi

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Umm... I think thats the radiation emanating from your monitor. Or maybe just the choking sarcasm vapor coming from the other forums 😉

lexical said:
Umm... I think thats the radiation emanating from your monitor. Or maybe just the choking sarcasm vapor coming from the other forums 😉

*Gack!*

muchdrama said:

Are you a nuclear physicist? No? Then you'll pardon me if I totally ignore your opinion. Twenty years ago we were told tap water couldn't harm us. Thirty years ago we were told the land dumps corporations built whole suburbs over were safe. Forty years ago smoking was for studs! And you know what? They were all idiots to tell us such things. Johns Hopkins can't even tell us if eggs are good or bad for us. I'm not putting something nuclear powered in ANYthing I use regularly...especially my cell phone. Natch? Natch!

Nuclear power is a stupendous misnomer for this thing.

No fission, no fusion, no nuclear reaction. No reaction, and nuclear ceases to be an appropriate term.

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Well, the article does specify that it's only appropriate to devices that require low power but long endurance (eg safety sensors).

This thing isn't a reactor. It's just a cleaner alternative to a radiothermal generator.