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LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works 2 days agoIt is pretty hard to irradiate a whole block and give everyone turbo-cancer with my smartphone, tbh.
The Soviets used RTGs quite a bit for remote installations, and “whoops, we lost one, I hope nobody finds it and kills their family” is a real concern (that was kind of ignored because a. Russia is big and b. it’s the Soviets we are talking about)
vane@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Nobody wants you to wear it. It would be enough if you could keep it next to the building that would power it for next 100 or 1000 years. Wouldn’t it be nice to not have to worry about energy in your house for couple of generations ? You can read about ex. carbon-14 battery www.ukaea.org/…/carbon-14-diamond-battery/ or watch video here www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgGVt4sUnnw