great, I just got over my Alkaline addiction. I had to go to double-A. Now this?
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Re:Wow...
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Anonymous Coward
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Marty McFly : Doc, you don't just walk into a store and buy plutonium... did you rip that off?
Dr. Emmett Brown : Shhhhhh. Of course. From a group of Libyan nationalists. They wanted me to build them a bomb, so I took their plutonium and in turn, gave them a shiny bomb-casing filled with used pinball machine parts.
Authorities in Chicago, Illinois have ordered the evacuation of the north shore after an iPod meltdown.
-- But God demonstrates his love for us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us - (Romans 5:8)
Not radioactively powered but a trickle charge
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planckscale
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It looks like this mostly a development into boosting the charge of an otherwise ordinary Li battery. If it keeps my cell battery charged for over a month as opposed to every 4 days than I could care less if my ear mutates into a chicken wing.
" Once these challenges are overcome, a promising use for nuclear microbatteries would be in handheld devices like cellphones and PDAs. As mentioned above, the nuclear units could trickle charge into conventional batteries. Our one-cantilever system generated pulses with a peak power of 100 milliwatts; with many more cantilevers, and by using the energy of pulses over periods of hours, a nuclear battery would be able to inject a significant amount of current into the handheld's battery.
How much that current could increase the device's operation time depends on many factors. For a cellphone used for hours every day or for a power-hungry PDA, the nuclear energy boost won't help much. But for a cellphone used two or three times a day for a few minutes, it could mean the difference between recharging the phone every week or so and recharging it once a month."
-- Namaste
Re:Well I'll be damned
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otis+wildflower
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The primary downsides to Nuclear Batteries is that they are expensive and they don't scale.
They're also not rechargable:p
Re:Unknown Error In The Submission
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nocomment
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just think you can power your iPod with a nuclear battery, and listen to it with all FOUR of your newly formed ears! Portable 3-d stereo baby!;-)
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Throwing Bricks...
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TiggertheMad
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NEWS CAMERA FOCUSES ON GROUP OF BEARDED MEN WEARING DIRTY CAMOFLAGE JUMPSUITS. THEY ARE STANDING BEYOUND A FENCE AT THE END OF AN AIRPORT RUNWAY.
REPORTER: Thanks, Dan. I am here at the end of runway 4, where we are seeing a shift in Al-Queda's tactics today. They seem to be employing some sort of revolutionary new tactic...
CAMERA SHOWS A TERRORIST HEAVE A BRICK IN THE AIR AS A JET TAKES OFF, ROARING OVERHEAD. THE BRICK FLYS ABOUT 20 FEET UP, BEFORE FALLING TO THE GROUND NEXT TO THE VISIBLY UPSET TERRORIST.
Reporter: Back to you, Dan.
--
HA! I just wasted some of your bandwidth with a frivolous sig!
Re:Maybe PATRIOT batteries?
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Lord+Prox
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· Score: 2, Funny
No, no, no. Earth Batteries (tm). Packaging; green. Lots of green.
Day glo green?
Chernobyl green?
Glow in the dark green?
Puke green?
I can see lots of ways the whole green thing might not work out in our favor on this one.
Mabey they can bring back the "duck and cover" turtle from the 50's with an eco friendly spin from Madison Ave. to enlighten the youth of today.
This post is an attempt at humor. Any resemblance to a troll is purely coincidental
Doc, all we need is some plutonium...
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MagicDude
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I'm sure in 1985, plutonium is available at every corner drugstore, but in 1955 it's a little hard to come by!
Obligatory Back To The Future Quote
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Anonymous Coward
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Dr. Emmett Brown : I'm sure in 1985, plutonium is available at every corner drugstore, but in 1955 it's a little hard to come by!
Re:New addition to the Patriot Act?
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Anonymous Coward
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but I read an aweful lot....
That's awsome.
Remember the Bloom County...
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erwin
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At the Science fair. Oliver has build a nuclear bomb as his project...
Teacher - "And where did you get the fissionable material?" Oliver - "I scraped the luminous paint off 10,000 old watch dials" Teacher (turning quickly and clapping hands) - "Class! Fire Drill!"
(and yes, I know the fuel mentioned in the article can't go critical. It's just a friggin' joke).
And the winner is...
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The+Meshback
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And the winner of the 2004 Slashdot award for the shortest, most concise and to the point article summary goes to...(opens envelope)...Anonymous Reader.
Re:Unknown Error In The Submission
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fsterman
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No, that has too much bad press. Freedom Batteries.
-- Is there anything better than clicking through Microsoft ads on Slashdot?
Be the first kid on your block …
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Matarick
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with the Nuclear Armageddon Remote Control Godzilla, as seen in Godzilla: Final Wars.
Caution, wear radioactive gear when pressing the atomic breath button.
Suitable for children ages 5 and up
First observation of electron decay
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Cardbox
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Hidden away in the article is a discovery that will revolutionize our understanding of particle physics and cosmology:
Nickel-63 is ideal for this application because its emitted beta particles travel a maximum of 21 micrometres in silicon before disintegrating
This must imply that there exists a lighter lepton than the electron. Goodbye, Standard Model!
Re:Maybe PATRIOT batteries?
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Lindril
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Slashdot Mirror
Or are you just happy to see me?
Imagine going to the store to buy some new Plutonium-Cadmium batteries?
Yet another thing to lower my dwindling sperm count! Awesome!
You thought you had problems going through airport security before!
"Was it a millionaire who said 'Imagine No Posessions?'" -- Elvis Costello
I nominate this story for shortest posted news item on /.
Authorities in Chicago, Illinois have ordered the evacuation of the north shore after an iPod meltdown.
But God demonstrates his love for us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us - (Romans 5:8)
" Once these challenges are overcome, a promising use for nuclear microbatteries would be in handheld devices like cellphones and PDAs. As mentioned above, the nuclear units could trickle charge into conventional batteries. Our one-cantilever system generated pulses with a peak power of 100 milliwatts; with many more cantilevers, and by using the energy of pulses over periods of hours, a nuclear battery would be able to inject a significant amount of current into the handheld's battery.
How much that current could increase the device's operation time depends on many factors. For a cellphone used for hours every day or for a power-hungry PDA, the nuclear energy boost won't help much. But for a cellphone used two or three times a day for a few minutes, it could mean the difference between recharging the phone every week or so and recharging it once a month."
Namaste
The primary downsides to Nuclear Batteries is that they are expensive and they don't scale.
:p
They're also not rechargable
just think you can power your iPod with a nuclear battery, and listen to it with all FOUR of your newly formed ears! Portable 3-d stereo baby! ;-)
/* oops I accidentally made a comment, sorry */
NEWS CAMERA FOCUSES ON GROUP OF BEARDED MEN WEARING DIRTY CAMOFLAGE JUMPSUITS. THEY ARE STANDING BEYOUND A FENCE AT THE END OF AN AIRPORT RUNWAY.
REPORTER: Thanks, Dan. I am here at the end of runway 4, where we are seeing a shift in Al-Queda's tactics today. They seem to be employing some sort of revolutionary new tactic...
CAMERA SHOWS A TERRORIST HEAVE A BRICK IN THE AIR AS A JET TAKES OFF, ROARING OVERHEAD. THE BRICK FLYS ABOUT 20 FEET UP, BEFORE FALLING TO THE GROUND NEXT TO THE VISIBLY UPSET TERRORIST.
Reporter: Back to you, Dan.
HA! I just wasted some of your bandwidth with a frivolous sig!
No, no, no. Earth Batteries (tm). Packaging; green. Lots of green.
Day glo green?
Chernobyl green?
Glow in the dark green?
Puke green?
I can see lots of ways the whole green thing might not work out in our favor on this one.
Mabey they can bring back the "duck and cover" turtle from the 50's with an eco friendly spin from Madison Ave. to enlighten the youth of today.
This post is an attempt at humor. Any resemblance to a troll is purely coincidental
I'm sure in 1985, plutonium is available at every corner drugstore, but in 1955 it's a little hard to come by!
Dr. Emmett Brown : I'm sure in 1985, plutonium is available at every corner drugstore, but in 1955 it's a little hard to come by!
That's awsome.
At the Science fair. Oliver has build a nuclear bomb as his project...
Teacher - "And where did you get the fissionable material?"
Oliver - "I scraped the luminous paint off 10,000 old watch dials"
Teacher (turning quickly and clapping hands) - "Class! Fire Drill!"
(and yes, I know the fuel mentioned in the article can't go critical. It's just a friggin' joke).
And the winner of the 2004 Slashdot award for the shortest, most concise and to the point article summary goes to...(opens envelope)...Anonymous Reader.
*Applause*
His wife is in a coma.
No, that has too much bad press. Freedom Batteries.
Is there anything better than clicking through Microsoft ads on Slashdot?
with the Nuclear Armageddon Remote Control Godzilla, as seen in Godzilla: Final Wars.
Caution, wear radioactive gear when pressing the atomic breath button.
Suitable for children ages 5 and up
Hidden away in the article is a discovery that will revolutionize our understanding of particle physics and cosmology:
This must imply that there exists a lighter lepton than the electron. Goodbye, Standard Model!Soylent green.