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Radioactive laptops? Perhaps not...
Blog If you pick your isotope well -- the examples given use tritium, a radioactive form of hydrogen - the other decay products are inert, and in theory you can generate useful amounts of power for a reasonable length of time.
[October 2, 2007, 12:09]
Software bug blamed for Australian radioactive spill
News Amec Engineering, designer of the Beverly uranium processing plant in South Australia, has blamed buggy software for a radioactive spill at the site last December, confirming early suspicions that computers played a role in the accident.
[January 30, 2002, 10:58]
Radioactive laptops? Perhaps not...
Blog Comment Hmmmm. Looks like a Yank already has a few patents in the battery technology.http://www.rexresearch.com/nucell/nucell.htm#obit And also one on how to turn the UK's mountain of Plutonium into something a bit more manageable using xrays.
[October 3, 2007, 5:10]
Radioactive laptops? Perhaps not...
Blog Comment Well.there's a lot that's odd about the Paul M Brown patent. A nuclear-powered self-resonant oscillator, fed by hundreds of grams of uranium and thorium, and generating nearly 10 kilowatts? Even if it works as advertised, that's going to be one...
[October 3, 2007, 9:41]
Radioactive laptops? Perhaps not...
Blog Comment I think these could be great for the environment if they were developed further but from what i've read so far I just cant see these making it to the shelves, not at an affordable price anyway and surely if they generate as much heat as people say...
[January 28, 2008, 20:35]
Radioactive...
Blog Comment Grrr would love to listen to the dulcet tones of Ruperts' goodself - but why the insistence on Real ?
[February 1, 2007, 1:02]
Radioactive laptops? Perhaps not...
Blog Comment Comparing the 1800 W of the Li-ion battery with the 25 W of this battery is wrong. A laptop need less than 25 W to operate, therefore 1 kg of this battery will do. A Li-ion battery only has about 52 Wh of energy while this battery has an "endless...
[October 5, 2007, 22:19]
Radioactive laptops? Perhaps not...
Blog Comment Another good point fv000. Lith-Ion batteries need to be as large and heavy as they are because they "run down". A Lith-Ion battery that provided 25W of power could be made very small but would have a VERY short operating time before needing to be...
[October 27, 2007, 2:58]
Radioactive laptops? Perhaps not...
Blog Comment I figured the story was "off" - thanks for the reality check. Still, couldn't this principal be used on nuclear waste? In a nice Cradle to Cradle fashion, we turn the waste of the power plants into inputs to an additional power source.
[October 2, 2007, 18:59]
Radioactive laptops? Perhaps not...
Blog Comment its very ineresting,I want to have a the best technology for laptop battery,I think these could be great for the environment if they were developed further too.
[February 18, 2008, 23:49]
Radioactive laptops? Perhaps not...
Blog Comment There is some science behind the claim, and it's being investigated by the University of Rochester at least. They have an article here: http://www.rochester.edu/news/show.php? id=2154 from May, 2005 about their research.
[October 2, 2007, 20:07]
Radioactive laptops? Perhaps not...
Blog Comment I've got a torch with tritium glowtubes embedded in it, and very useful they are too. However, the amount of energy they produce is vanishingly small. A tritium betavoltaic battery capable of powering a laptop, even in a hybrid form with some more...
[October 29, 2007, 13:31]
Radioactive...
Blog Comment Here's a link to the BBC consultation about the on-demand and streaming IP services. If you don't want to have to pay Bill a tax to enjoy the BBC, I recommend you pootle over there and make your thoughts known.
[February 2, 2007, 10:01]
Radioactive...
Blog Comment Agree entirely. It's about time we had a show that's about more than how to insert a floppy disk in the drive. Well done, Rupes.
[February 1, 2007, 17:57]
Radioactive...
Blog Comment If you agree with ga22ar about RealPlayer, then the forthcoming BBC Media TV download service using all Microsoft software will drive you nuts. To object, fill in this survey - http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/consult/open-consultations...
[February 1, 2007, 8:27]
Radioactive laptops? Perhaps not...
Blog Comment At beginning of reading this article, it sounds interesting to me. Having thought it over, I feel it could not be a practical and commericalizable solution. What about safety? what if children misuse it somehow?
[January 31, 2008, 19:34]
Radioactive laptops? Perhaps not...
Blog Comment Llong - that principle has already been tried in fast breeder reactors. As a result, the UK now has an enormous stockpile -- 100 tonnes -- of plutonium and nothing to use it on. In any case, the sort of waste that you have to bury in long-term deep...
[October 2, 2007, 21:46]
Radioactive...
Blog After many years secretly hoping that all this strange technology gubbins would go away, Radio 4 has finally caved in and got its own IT programme. It's called Click On. I've been involved behind the scenes with this since last year, when I...
[January 31, 2007, 22:30]
Radioactive assumptions in the Digital Economy Bill
Leader There are two major false assumptions behind the anti-file-sharing components of the Digital Economy Bill that are like two barely sub-critical lumps of uranium. Dangerous enough if considered separately, catastrophic if put together.
[November 24, 2009, 15:30]
