Mizzou's nuclear battery to power things smaller than your brain can imagine
By Darren Murph 
posted October 10th 2009 11:52AM
posted October 10th 2009 11:52AM
Oh yeah, everyone loves the extended battery, but are we really kosher with the added bulge? A team of boffins at the University of Missouri certainly aren't, as they've spent the last good while of their lives researching and developing a new nuclear battery that could be used to power devices much smaller than, well, most anything. The radioisotope cell, as it's called, can reportedly "provide power density that is six orders of magnitude higher than chemical batteries," and while some may question the safety of this potentially volatile device, the liquid semiconductor (used instead of a solid semiconductor) should help ease concerns. The current iteration of the device is about the size of a penny, and it's intended to power a variety of MEMS systems. Now, if only these guys could find a way to make a standard AA last longer than a week in our Wiimote, we'd be pleased as punch.[Via BBC, thanks Jim]
I GO TO MIZZOU :D
Yes! You'll be the FIRST to shove one of these BABIES into your pocket and watch your NUTS shrivel up like little PRUNES! No, in your case little RAISINS!
is it just me or is first vital now?
not only is it just scrolling down an article and then not seeing first
everyone's reaction is, "ugh troll, what are you getting paid for. stop sleeping on the job"
but also that engadget commenter use the first post for all topics,
regardless of if its relative to the actual post or not.
so rather than having an actual thought start the topic and limit the thread
we should just have "FIRST" and others can break the ice.\
as much as i FIRST hated the usage of this,
it has just come to be a needed part of any blog commenters life.
plus who, else should we swear at,
you f**king first ****head troll
-Are you tellin me that this sucker is nuclear?
-No, no, this sucker is electrical but I need a nuclear reaction to be able to use my iPhone for more than 24 hours...
The real question is: will bringing the nuclear batteries to power bring to turbines to speed?
That's lame, you sinophobes.
你们这群恐中患者真娘
Actually what jiminy wrote was a terribly machine translated insult about shutting up and also an insult about nostomo's mother.
I am quite thankful we don't have Google translate built into our brains because then everything would sound like Engrish. What he actually wrote was: "CLOSE UPWARDS! YOUR MOTHER'S!" Because google literally translated "shut up" to the word for shut/close and the word for upwards.
The part about the website translated somewhat better, I suspect the people at Google haven't really spent a lot of time on translating insults properly yet.
Anyways the internet isn't just for English speakers anymore and while I do wish we could all understand each other more easily hopefully someday our browsers will be able to do a near-perfect translation of everything for us. Either that or we'll all learn like 20 languages like the Europeans do.
Every time I go past this on the main page I think it is a picture of one of those signs they put on the sides of highways that show trucks tipping over. It does look like that.
This will fit perfect in my Titanium robot chassis. Whats the worst that could happen.
First guy - Mizzou's nuclear battery to power things as small as YOUR brain.
I wonder if the development of this thing was funded by Oncologists.
Muck Fizzou
I'm European, I only know English, I guess I best get cracking then
That looks like the size of a half-dollar, not a penny! Am I missing something?