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

  • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net
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    11 months ago

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

    • Justin@lemmy.jlh.name
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      11 months ago

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

        • SkyNTP
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          11 months ago

          I mean so is drinking a gallon of bleach. Fortunately, there’s a pretty simple preventative measure for both:

          Don’t do it?

        • lolcatnip@reddthat.com
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          11 months ago

          What gave you the idea that swallowing a small amount of mildly radioactive material is fatal?

          • Transporter Room 3@startrek.website
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            11 months ago

            Man, I figured the joke was obvious but I guess not.

            “tiny amount of radioactive material whose radiation stopped by thin plastics is a literal death sentence” is, I thought, pretty clear hyperbole.

            • lolcatnip@reddthat.com
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              11 months ago

              A lot of people are really irrationally afraid of anything involving radiation. I mistook you for one of them.

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                11 months ago

                No worries. Glow it up, let’s get some extreme energy density up in this removed. I went for nuke in the old days where I enlisted in the military.

                I have a healthy respect for radiation. That’s why I leave handling the good stuff to the professionals.

                I’ve actually got some small isotope samples in a lockbox from an old highschool demonstration lab for Geiger counters. No Geiger counter though yet. I haven’t even opened it since I got it to check the contents were intact.

    • bitwolf@lemmy.one
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      11 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.