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Who needs solar panels?;)
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It has to be before 12 noon on April 1st to qualify.
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mind you, the idea itself is valid. But it would be unsaleable if it were that powerful.
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I rather like that the first comment (as they were when I read it) says the person is a beta tester. I wonder if they also have alpha and gamma testers?
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The ruskies produced a portable nuclear generator for remote lighthouses long ago. IIRC it used thermpiles to convert heat into electricity. With the post-communist chaos they ended up in the hands of whoever dared take them.
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ago. IIRC it used thermpiles to convert heat into electricity. With the post-communist chaos they ended up in the hands of whoever dared take them.
yerss. Those mainly used strontium 90, I believe, it is a nice beta emitter without TOO much hard gamma. So shielding isn't a huge problem and you can simply pull the heat out without having to have a 100 tons of DU around it...
Plutonium is used on spacecraft where shielding is not so much needed.
Caesium 137 is the bugger - hard gamma emitter and needs massive shielding, but fortunately only hangs around for about 200 years, if that.
That's the one that needs burying, or very specialised treatment to get the heat out.
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ago. IIRC it used thermpiles to convert heat into electricity. With the post-communist chaos they ended up in the hands of whoever dared take them.
The voyager spacecraft use similar technology nuclear batteries using plutonium, which I thought were made in the UK.
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long ago. IIRC it used thermpiles to convert heat into electricity. With th e post-communist chaos they ended up in the hands of whoever dared take the m.
There was one in a commie satellite that crashed in Oz ISTR
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Yeah...right. Develops "1000KHGz of power, endlessly! " ??????
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ago. IIRC it used thermpiles to convert heat into electricity. With the post-communist chaos they ended up in the hands of whoever dared take them.
A full blown U235 fission reactor, in fact; one landed in Canada
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ago. IIRC it used thermpiles to convert heat into electricity.
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But that's not really the same sort of thing as
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The "Postscript" on that last page is especially worth reading, and is from
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es long ago. IIRC it used thermpiles to convert heat into electricity. With the post-communist chaos they ended up in the hands of whoever dared take them.
This is the one I was thinking of.
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It was Canada.
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long ago. IIRC it used thermpiles to convert heat into electricity.
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Yes, that is interesting.