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It's real, but it's incapable of putting out enough power to so much as run a handheld calculator or dumb digital watch. The output of 100 microWatts (yes, microWatts) is way, way, way below what you would need to run a cell phone, computer or even a smart watch. You can't even power a single low power LED with that minuscule amount of power output. Dave Jones at EEVBlog has done an excellent video on this battery and debunks its maker's claims quite thoroughly. Give it a watch and learn about how useless this battery is.

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but if you coat it on the tip of bullets it will puncture metal like a mofo

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Depleted uranium works because of how hard it is, not because its radioactive.

However, you'd fuck up whomever was hit with the contents. =)

the bullet is machined from DU by means of turning. if you look at the tip of a bullet you ought to see a small indentation.

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Green tip ammo?

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It's actually enough to actuate a relay.

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Um, no. Show me a relay that can actuate at 100 microWatts. Electromechanical relays require much more current and voltage than this betavoltaic cell can source. Solid state relays also need more drive current and voltage to light the LED in them. There isn't a relay on the planet that can work at the low level of power this battery can supply. If you know of one that will, please link the data sheet for it.

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Menlo Micro MM5600 switch uses .08mw

https://menlomicro.com/products/rf

not true, with a capacitor it could actuate a relay that is neither normaly open or closed but rather the gate flops like it had a broken spring. the device could send an IR lazer blast across a distance for a long range doorbell that can last 28000 years.

heh you have a fag check mark

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Picman has the same. This is why.

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Great! I totally want one of these in my phone...... in my pocket.... inches away from my junk.

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Watch out, you'll develop freakish mutant superpowers!

This looks like a job for MUTATED JUNK MAN!

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"Oh God, no! I'll never commit another crime again! Just put that away, please!"

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What could go wrong...

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It sounds like an RTG made from nuclear waste. Of course, the article is misleading and full of lies. While RTGs are great for satellites due to their solid state nature and long lifetime, the power they produce is orders of magnitudes more expensive. Also, no one is going to put those things into cars. One bad car crash and the nuclear waste is spread all over.

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One bad car crash and the nuclear waste is spread all over.

Exactly my thought. Also, peaceful PhDs. in Cultural Enrichment would find another use.

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Nuclear waste is a misnomer. It implies trash or lack of value.

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Car accidents busting those things open isn't going to end well for anyone

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So war with China, Nuclear powered cars and Boston Dynamics robots. Everyone better start stocking up on bottle caps and Radaway.