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minus-squarerecklessengagement@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·7 days agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_generator
minus-squarejoseandres42@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·7 days agoThat’s just another way to turn heat into electricity. Those thermocouples could also be used on a campfire.
minus-squaresus@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·7 days agookay, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betavoltaic_device
minus-squarerumba@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·7 days agothat’s just a modified Peltier device :)
minus-square✺roguetrick✺@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-27 days agoYou think that’s hot shit: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2468606921000538 In theory, if you made it small enough, you could make a gamma rectenna. Considering gamma rays are often smaller than an atom, you’d have to make the antenna out of something other than atoms though. Good luck.
minus-squareMystikIncarnate@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·7 days agoThis exists, but it’s generally only used in spacecraft. Most terrestrial uses of RITEGs have resulted in tragedy.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_generator
That’s just another way to turn heat into electricity. Those thermocouples could also be used on a campfire.
okay,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betavoltaic_device
that’s just a modified Peltier device :)
You think that’s hot shit: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2468606921000538
In theory, if you made it small enough, you could make a gamma rectenna. Considering gamma rays are often smaller than an atom, you’d have to make the antenna out of something other than atoms though. Good luck.
This exists, but it’s generally only used in spacecraft.
Most terrestrial uses of RITEGs have resulted in tragedy.