Power your laptop for 30 years without a recharge!

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elDiablo

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I love the military sometimes. And I don't just mean the British Military. I mean military in general. They get lots of money, they like to do research, and every now and then they come up with a way to give the average Joe not only the ability to run a laptop for 30 years without a recharge, but they do it by use of a beta-particle emitter! I love it! I seriously do! I'm not being ironic or sarcastic for once. I love the fact that possibly some of the most dangerous (to individuals in a non-combat style. Particle emitters can hurt a lot...) technology, and they use it to power the thing that almost everyone has! I love it!
 
thatbloke

thatbloke

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holy crap... this is going to seriously change the way we have portable power, surely?

Batteries like that with 30-year lives will by far outlive the device they are powering, so they will (i think) need to perhaps come up with some kind of standard size or some easy way to recycle them so that they can be easily re-used.

There's no point in having a laptop with a 30-year battery if that laptop is then replaced 3 years after it is bought - that's 27 years of power wasted...

but cool.

I can see things like mobile phones and satnavs perhaps benefitting from this too... Maybe even if they can do it on a larger scale, perhaps it could power cars in the future???
 
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elDiablo

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thatbloke said:
...perhaps it could power cars in the future???
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The only thing being that the cars would be electric cars, and therefore not very fast. Which is great, in terms of safety, but (as has previously been seen with electric cars) no one will buy them :)
 
thatbloke

thatbloke

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elDiablo said:
The only thing being that the cars would be electric cars, and therefore not very fast. Which is great, in terms of safety, but (as has previously been seen with electric cars) no one will buy them :)
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well petrol reserves are not gonna last forever and to be honest the price of petrol in the UK is beginning to approach the point where it is prohibitive. Things will get alot worse regarding petrol supplies in out lifetime and to me something like this sounds like a long-term solution :)
 
thatbloke

thatbloke

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elDiablo said:
Indeed. Hence the whole "loving the military for giving the avergae Joe dangerous stuffs". Still, boo! Maybe, just not like the first link says.
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sounds good for things like satellites and space travel though, perhaps?
 
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