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minus-squarejoseandres42@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·3 months agoThat’s just another way to turn heat into electricity. Those thermocouples could also be used on a campfire.
minus-squaresus@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·3 months agookay, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betavoltaic_device
minus-square✺roguetrick✺@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·edit-23 months agoYou think that’s hot shit: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2468606921000538 In theory, if you made it small enough, you could make a gamma rectenna. Considering gamma rays are often smaller than an atom, you’d have to make the antenna out of something other than atoms though. Good luck.
That’s just another way to turn heat into electricity. Those thermocouples could also be used on a campfire.
okay,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betavoltaic_device
You think that’s hot shit: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2468606921000538
In theory, if you made it small enough, you could make a gamma rectenna. Considering gamma rays are often smaller than an atom, you’d have to make the antenna out of something other than atoms though. Good luck.
that’s just a modified Peltier device :)