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I mean, it's about 100B of them to power a high end Tesla at peak output. You could likely just use 1 billion of them and couple them to a capacitor bank. That
by jtriangle 3y ago
I mean, it's about 100B of them to power a high end Tesla at peak output. You could likely just use 1 billion of them and couple them to a capacitor bank.
That's not quite as outlandish as it sounds, given that they're very small, 15x15x5mm
And of course, this is an early gen product, not ridiculous to assume they'd be able to make these smaller, and with higher output, in the future, so we very well might get there in time. In terms of applications, there are a ton of viable applications between "occasionally used low power environmental sensor" and "car" of course.
- Kluggy 3y ago1 billion would fit into a cube of 1000 units long, wide, and tall. This would be 15 meters by 15 meters by 5 meters, or 49 feet by 49 feet by 16 feet, or much much larger then the entire car.
- jtriangle 3y agoYes, but, say you can get 1 watt per module, or 10, suddenly it starts to become more reasonable for many things as long as the modules stay small.
- actionfromafar 3y agoWorkable submarine though! Could a submarine get by with only 400 horsepower?
- jtriangle 3y agoLikely, submarines are slow and quiet, and this would be very, very quiet given there wouldn't be pump noise to worry about. That's the big hurdle with the current subs, you have to circulate water in and out of the reactors to keep them cool, and for an attack sub, you don't have enough insulation/mass/space to keep them 100% quiet. The missile subs are much quieter, though, once you cook off a missile...well that's a very loud thing to do in a very quiet place. There is still the problem of the rest of the sub's power needs. I can't imagine they're terribly efficient given they have a reactor available...