Re:World’s largest battery maker announces major breakthroug...
by yread on Friday April 21, 2023 @04:25AM
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And Uranium-235 about 1GWh/kg
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Re:World’s largest battery maker announces major breakthroug...
by ly3xqhl8g9 on Friday April 21, 2023 @04:36AM
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Uranium-235 is around 24 GWh/kg [1] (24,000,000,000 Wh).
Re:World’s largest battery maker announces major breakthroug...
by travisporter on Friday April 21, 2023 @06:36AM
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Whoa so… 100kwh is 40mg! 3grains of sand to run a Tesla
https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=100kwh%2F%282.5+gwh%2Fk...
Re:World’s largest battery maker announces major breakthroug...
by m3kw9 on Friday April 21, 2023 @09:52AM
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Except a lot more is released at once so it will accelerate like a jet engine on every stop sign
Re:World’s largest battery maker announces major breakthroug...
by travisporter on Sunday April 23, 2023 @11:50PM
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Haha yes I did not think about that. There’s no throttling there
Re:World’s largest battery maker announces major breakthroug...
by the_duke on Friday April 21, 2023 @11:24AM
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You need to account for all the weight required to turn the radiation into electricity.
That'll make the numbers ... a bit different.
Re:World’s largest battery maker announces major breakthroug...
by mrtesthah on Friday April 21, 2023 @02:01PM
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Not necessarily:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_ge...
Re:World’s largest battery maker announces major breakthroug...
by philipkglass on Friday April 21, 2023 @03:37PM
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The GPHS RTG contains 7.8 kilograms of plutonium 238 but masses 57 kg in total. It also generates only 300 watts from that 57 kg package:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPHS-RTG
You'd need about 3 metric tons of them to power one Model 3 cruising at highway speed (assuming ~16 kilowatts continuous power draw).