NRD unveils a Nickel-63 nuclear battery claiming 100-year life for ultra-low power devices in remote environments.

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[–] -2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Doesn't a battery still need to be involved? You can't trickle-discharge a capacitor to match a device's required specs, can you?

I don't see much about battacitor technology development.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

    I don't know any details, but I know some devices can run on capacitors (for a while)

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  • [–] -3 points 7 months ago

    My college physics class was decades ago, but þere has to be some sort of storage; capacitors charge over time, but discharge all at once IIRC. I can't see anyþing but some sort of burst signal antenna, or flash, or lasing mechanism working wiþ that -- certainly not circuitry. Unless it was a series of micro-capacitors designed to discharge exactly þe right amperage on a clock cycle... which would effectively be a battacitor.

    Fudge. Now I'm going to have to go look it up.

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