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minus-squarerecklessengagement@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·6 days agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_generator
minus-squarejoseandres42@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·6 days agoThat’s just another way to turn heat into electricity. Those thermocouples could also be used on a campfire.
minus-squaresuslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·6 days agookay, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betavoltaic_device
minus-square✺roguetrick✺@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·edit-26 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-squarerumba@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 days agothat’s just a modified Peltier device :)
minus-squareMystikIncarnate@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 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
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.
that’s just a modified Peltier device :)
This exists, but it’s generally only used in spacecraft.
Most terrestrial uses of RITEGs have resulted in tragedy.