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Re:Tiny nuclear battery be commercialised? by MCUmaster on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @04:23PM (#38943362)
How many 5 volt amps hours is 8.64 joules per day?
Re:Tiny nuclear battery be commercialised? by lodovic on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @04:32PM (#38943494)
The article says it produces 100 microwatts continuously for 50 years, with a 1 watt version coming in 2025. Just make a stack of 5 of those.
Re:Tiny nuclear battery be commercialised? by actionfromafar on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @07:02PM (#38945436)
5000 of those, right?
Re:Tiny nuclear battery be commercialised? by foobarian on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @04:30PM (#38943463)
That's enough to lift 8.64 apples 1 meter high once a day.
Re:Tiny nuclear battery be commercialised? by chasd00 on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @04:40PM (#38943612)
for those confused, 1 meter is approximately 0.66 Ariana Grandes

https://twitter.com/GatorsDaily/status/1524768862465576962?l...

Re:Tiny nuclear battery be commercialised? by shadowpho on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @04:37PM (#38943575)
8.64 joules = 2.4 mW hours. Dividing by 5v gives 0.48 mA*hrs, so you can run a 5v load for 1 hr if it takes 0.48 mA.
Re:Tiny nuclear battery be commercialised? by gpm on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @04:44PM (#38943666)
Take the easy route when it's presented like that! 2.4 mW hours is 0.1 mW days, dividing by 1 day (i.e. doing nothing / applying the "per day" part of the original units) and 5v gives you 0.02 mA.
Re:Tiny nuclear battery be commercialised? by meatmanek on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @05:15PM (#38944140)
You could also just go back to the sentence just before "8.64 joules of energy per day" and see that it produces 100 microwatts (or 0.1mW).
Re:Tiny nuclear battery be commercialised? by pi-e-sigma on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @04:31PM (#38943478)
Ampere-hour is a unit of electric charge, not energy
Re:Tiny nuclear battery be commercialised? by dmonitor on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @04:38PM (#38943588)
5V amp-hours is watt-hours, which is joules, which is energy.
Re:Tiny nuclear battery be commercialised? by pi-e-sigma on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @04:43PM (#38943654)
you are right, somehow I skipped the "5V" part. My bad.