Scientists Invent 30 Year Continuous Power Laptop Battery

[maximaz]

So would anything happen if it were exposed to heat or dropped into a fire? Fallout 3 style little mushroom clouds?

 

[SuAside]

Did anyone else just notice the term tritium used?


Uhhh, thats weapons grade nuclear material O_o

Granted, its used as a nuclear accelerator due to low critical mass and insubstantial yield, but thats still radioactive hydrogen being output by these batteries.

tritium isn't weapons grade nuclear material ffs...

it's the stuff that makes your ironsights on your pistols glow white/green.

or the stuff that makes your battery-less 'red dot' (though in this case usually green dot) sights work, like the trijicon reflex sights.

it's been used for decades in stuff like SUSAT and SUIT scopes.

 

[Martinez]

Wow... that sounds really good, almost too good. I mean 30 years... My current laptop holds out about 3h if you are lucky, just running 'simple' programs (text editor or something like that), if I play some music maybe up to two hours (wishful thinking) and if I actually want to play a game it crashes within one hour. Before that I had a HP and after 4 years the battery was dead, and by that I mean it wouldn't even boot if it was unplugged. Had to use it as a desktop. A year after the battery left the world of functional gizmos the hard drive crapped out. Thank God I had backups! And now they promise 30 years?! 30 years of non stop functioning? To me that seems just as likely as Black Isle raising from the dead, releasing FO3 within 3 months and then starting work on FO4 . But then again I'm just skeptical...
If this batt will end up on the market I'm sure it will cost more than an arm and a leg... maybe a kidney and a lung... And there's bound to be some sort of catch to it (like you can't move it on to another lap top). Just think how fast the market could be saturated if a battery would last up to 30 years... it would mean putting the noose around their necks and kicking the stool...