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The Secret to Unlimited Energy Is in a Coin-Sized Battery—And China Is Already Producing It
Popular Mechanics ^ | March 25, 2025 | Darren Orf

Posted on 03/25/2025 8:55:15 PM PDT by Red Badger

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1 posted on 03/25/2025 8:55:15 PM PDT by Red Badger
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To: MtnClimber; SunkenCiv; rktman; mowowie; SuperLuminal; Cottonbay; telescope115; laplata; ...

Ping!...................


2 posted on 03/25/2025 8:56:17 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger
China has spent the last 50 years training scientists and engineers.

America has spent the last 50 years training MBAs, cupcakes, and trannys.

3 posted on 03/25/2025 8:57:57 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and His mercy endureth forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: Red Badger

No big deal, we have DEI lol


4 posted on 03/25/2025 8:58:26 PM PDT by 556x45
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To: Red Badger

Innovation is not driven by government policy...except in states governed by the likes of CCP.

Thanks to progressivism, die and oppressive/destructive lockdowns the US is now - imho - on the order of a generation behind.

Family units, education, manufacturing and limited government is the formula for success.

We’ve been driven to the point of implosion by the minority in control of a party of stupid.

This battle has barely begun...


5 posted on 03/25/2025 9:00:18 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: Red Badger

Another secret-to-unlimited-energy story. Geeze. Seems like there’s ten of em every year for the last 30 years. Stop it already. Please!


6 posted on 03/25/2025 9:11:34 PM PDT by know.your.why
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

> America has spent the last 50 years training MBAs, cupcakes, and trannys. <

Don’t forget lawyers. We’ve got lots and lots of lawyers.


7 posted on 03/25/2025 9:11:50 PM PDT by Leaning Right (It’s morning in America. Again.)
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This style battery is perfect for pacemakers, hearing aids, And many other small electronics.......................


8 posted on 03/25/2025 9:16:20 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

I wrote a class paper back in 1976 about the use of certain nuclear waste isotops for power supplies.

——— wiki-——

Betavoltaics were invented in the 1970s.[3] Some pacemakers in the 1970s used betavoltaics based on promethium,[4] but were phased out as cheaper lithium batteries were developed.[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betavoltaic_device#:~:text=A%20betavoltaic%20device%20(betavoltaic%20cell,is%20the%20hydrogen%20isotope%20tritium.
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We have been using them in space for decades.


9 posted on 03/25/2025 9:20:21 PM PDT by TexasGator (111'111111111/)
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If memory serves, the batteries powering the Voyager probes have beta-decay ‘batteries’.


10 posted on 03/25/2025 9:24:57 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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This was announced about a year ago, Jan. 2024. Now Betavolt is hoping to start producing a 1 watt version this year than could power something pretty useful.

Then there’s all the radiosiotope thermal generators (RTGs) produced by the Soviet Union to power lighthouses and deserted for people to find and chopped open with axes by metal scavengers.


11 posted on 03/25/2025 9:42:53 PM PDT by bigbob (Yes. We ARE going back!)
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And, you can eat all the junk food you want and never gain weight!


12 posted on 03/25/2025 10:08:40 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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In Heaven...................


13 posted on 03/25/2025 10:14:10 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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Outstanding!


14 posted on 03/25/2025 10:30:39 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is rabble-rising Sam Adams now that we need him? Is his name Trump, now?)
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To: Red Badger

Color me skeptical.

China Tofu Dreg BS.

Do not ever trust the CCP to tell the truth. They are deceitful and wicked.


15 posted on 03/25/2025 11:25:36 PM PDT by dadgum (Fight to WIN or do not fight all)
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I've figured all kinds of neat inventions could be made from radioisotopes. What holds it all back is just how effective they are at killing life. It is amazing at how little radiation energy it takes to kill a man and the amount of energy they have! I thought it would be people living in space that would be the source of innovation.

Space is a already full of radiation and people up there are necessarily in self contained environments. Contamination is easier to manage.

16 posted on 03/26/2025 1:28:45 AM PDT by Nateman (Democrats did not strive for fraud friendly voting merely to continue honest elections.)
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...batteries powering the Voyager probes..

Voyager 1 and 2, are powered by radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs), which convert the heat from the natural radioactive decay of plutonium into electricity. The fuel is Plutonium-238. It is difficult to make . Shortages have led to some missions which would have been ideal with it , like the Titan probe , not using it. (We wait years and years for a probe to get all the way to Saturn, and then use a battery with only a few minutes of use.)

17 posted on 03/26/2025 1:51:54 AM PDT by Nateman (Democrats did not strive for fraud friendly voting merely to continue honest elections.)
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To: Nateman; Red Badger; null and void; dfwgator

[Voyager 1]

IIRC, there was some sort of problem with Voyager 1.

Something, something, bald-headed woman, something...


18 posted on 03/26/2025 3:46:20 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: Red Badger

A nickle sized battery powered by nickel? What could possibly go wrong?


19 posted on 03/26/2025 4:00:24 AM PDT by null and void (Americans are a people increasingly separated by our connectivity. H/T MortMan)
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I understand RTGs require a high temp differential too. Deep space is a good environment because is so cold.


20 posted on 03/26/2025 4:02:17 AM PDT by Theophilus (covfefe)
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