Thread 105712672

Who's stopping this from being developed?

Jews

>>105712672 (OP)
Nuclear reactions generate a lot of heat. How would you cool it?

Chernobyl + media fearmongering is scaring people away from it.

>>105712672 (OP)
They already exist, but they're impractical for everyday wattage requirements. Some pacemakers used them before lithium batteries were introduced.

>>105712672 (OP)
What if we commercialised orphan sources that you can shove into things like kids toys?

>>105712672 (OP)
>retard damages battery
>half the neighbourhood is contaminated by the time anyone notices it because the retard didn't know what he was doing
Yeah really a mystery why there isn't a company on earth dumb enough to take on the potential legal liability and inevitable clean-up costs of arming the average subhuman with radioactive material.

>>105712672 (OP)
I interviewed for this nuclear snake oil start-up in miami that had a bunch of investments from feds. It was just a technician role and the lady who interviewed me treated me like shit even though I was over qualified. Here's their website in case you ni/g/gas want to assess
https://citylabs.net/

>>105712672 (OP)
Physics

>>105712672 (OP)
Common sense

>>105712672 (OP)
the isotopes you need are a byproduct of weapons and give poor energy yield compared to energy investment

>>105712672 (OP)
Because people can't be trusted.

Retarded people won't take care of them. They will corrode, rust break, whatever. You'll have tiny radiation spots all over from discarded batteries. Don't even try to tell me that in 10 years food grown in China or India won't have a distinct radioactive signature.

Smart people will just tear them apart and try to make bigger batteries or weaponize them. I'd bet money that within 6 months somebody has removed all the nuclear material out of a dozen of them and are using it to heavily irradiate copper bullets in a graphite box.

>>105712672 (OP)
we have them on space probes and ruskies used them in lighthouses and radio repeaters in middle of fuck where. Many got stolen after SU collapsed and some were just lost. But they have pretty shit power output

>>105712672 (OP)
Batteries don't generate energy.

>>105712672 (OP)
the "will it blend?" crowd

>>105715581
nothing does you moron. it is literally impossible. you can only convert it. energy already exists in one form or another. it is literally impossible to "generate" energy. if anyone would manage to do that it would upend all science

>>105715616
science gets upended all the time when we adapt new findings, never say never

>>105715581
Air becomes carbon stupid, it’s a limited time energy system not infinite.

>>105715648
I mean...yeah. chances are never 0, for any kind of change.

>>105715581
why wouldn't this work? will the water eventually drain when inserting the baloons? what if you combined this with a rain catcher?

>>105712710
heat can be harvested to generate electricity. Why not just use the heat from the reaction to generate the electricity directly?

>>105716621
small bateries like that are usually betavoltaic shit, they don't generate enough heat

>>105716139
It takes too much force to push the balls back into the water through a watertight seal.

>>105712672 (OP)
They've been done before. Nuclear powered pacemakers were a thing back in the day. Not sure why they stopped using them.

>>105716997
Because they don't last as long as solid lithium batteries and can't be recharged. Turns out directly capturing charged particles from radioactive decay isn't very efficient.

>>105712672 (OP)
physics, betavaltaics are very very basd batteries

>>105716621
>Why not just use the heat from the reaction to generate the electricity directly?
Because of the second law of thermodynamics.