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Career Path => General => Topic started by: Max_Rodriguez on Nov 02, 2009, 04:54
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Pretty cool stuff
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8297934.stm (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8297934.stm)
Nuclear batteries are an attractive proposition for many applications because the isotopes that power them can provide a useful amount of current for phenomenally long times - up to hundreds of years or more.
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New packaging for an old idea. Not sure about the liquid semiconductor bit, though. What would separate the polarity (pn junction)? It's not like a battery with ions in solution, so how would that part work?
I think public paranoia would kill these products fairly quickly, but I for one would not hesitate to put a Seebeck unit in my laptop or Blackberry, if they could produce one that was small enough and still output enough power. If I remember correctly, conventional Seebeck generators are only about 8% efficient.