Nuclear!

[hoser]

I have a feed page on the computer that is stories, adds, and just general news. Lately I have been seeing news of the Chinese have developed a coin size nuclear battery. Yep you heard right nuclear. Said it would stay charged for fifty years without needing to charge. WOW!. think of it, you could go detecting and not stop till you keeled over. The article said they are still in the final stages of development. With all the warnings about Lithium-ion batteries either exploding or catching fire the last thing I would want is to be ground zero to that thing going BOOM!

 

[Rudy]

Stop worrying and just wear a lead jock strap.

 

[atomicbrh]

They want to put it in your cell phone.
So holding a radioactive source next to the noggin for hours on end is good for you?
Duh, brain cancer

 

[Rudy]

They want to put it in your cell phone.
So holding a radioactive source next to the noggin for hours on end is good for you?
Duh, brain cancer

Lead earmuffs?

 

[mudwhale]

As a Motorcyclist, I hope any radiation leakage takes out all the women glued to their phones while driving.

 

[hoser]

As a Motorcyclist, I hope any radiation leakage takes out all the women glued to their phones while driving.

Sorry to inform ya buddy but radiation only works if there is something between the ears to affect.

 

[Rudy]

I have a feed page on the computer that is stories, adds, and just general news. Lately I have been seeing news of the Chinese have developed a coin size nuclear battery. Yep you heard right nuclear. Said it would stay charged for fifty years without needing to charge. WOW!. think of it, you could go detecting and not stop till you keeled over. The article said they are still in the final stages of development. With all the warnings about Lithium-ion batteries either exploding or catching fire the last thing I would want is to be ground zero to that thing going BOOM!

Actually, the Chinese nuclear batteries in question can only deliver a few microwatts of power. Could be useful in applications like smoke detectors, but it doesn't have the power to power a metal detector.

The Voyager probe did carry nuclear batteries, but they are now largely depleted and can only supply enough energy to power a few of the instruments it carried into deep space.

 

[Rock Jock]

Actually we developed the nuclear battery and the administration gave the Chinese the technology. Don't get me started!

 

[TheFrood]

They want to put it in your cell phone.
So holding a radioactive source next to the noggin for hours on end is good for you?
Duh, brain cancer

And when it's not being used if you carry it in your pocket it's next to your other noggin...

 

[diggin4clad]

I'll pass on the nuclear batteries. Just give me some reliable AA's and I'm good to go.

 

[RgnFn]

...WOW!. think of it, you could go detecting and not stop till you keeled over. ....

Hmmph. At my age, I can already do that