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Diamond batteries promise to power space probes for 100 years
- hn_throwaway_99 6y agoConfusing, I really wouldn't call this a "battery" because it's not releasing stored energy, it's just converting beta decay of radioactive isotopes into electricity. The oldest Voyager space probes already do that, so curious if/how this is much of an advancement.
- chrismeller 6y agoI actually had the same thought, so I was looking up Voyager to make sure I was right. In case anyone else is interested in more detail about their power source, here’s NASA: https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/spacecraft/instruments/rtg/ https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/spacecraft/instruments/...
- cyberlab 6y agoSomeone needs to compile a list of all this fringe tech that I see popping up in my feeds, almost daily now. I know there are techpress blogs that pump out articles like this, but there doesn't seem to be an authoritative compendium of such tech anywhere on the net. I could curate this by hand with 3 hours of free time and some Red Bull I suppose. The reason I want this is because we seem to be swimming in innovation, but nobody to aggregate and make sense of it all, and join-the-dots of all this tech so we can make even bigger leaps with it. Also: A lot of these articles are great, but too quickly shoved into people's bookmarks and forgotten about, without any real action taken on them. Put simply: we are addicted to innovation porn, but with little action taken on this innovation!