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[ratty]

Nuclear battery produces power for 50 years without needing to charge

Betavolt says its battery could power mobile phones that never need to be charged and drones that can fly forever

A Chinese startup has unveiled a new battery that it claims can generate electricity for 50 years with the need for charging or maintenance.

Beijing-based Betavolt said its nuclear battery is the first in the world to realise the miniaturisation of atomic energy, placing nickel-63 isotopes into a module smaller than a coin.

The company said the next-generation battery had already entered the pilot testing stage and will eventually be mass produced for commercial applications like phones and drones.

“Betavolt atomic energy batteries can meet the needs of long-lasting power supply in multiple scenarios, such as aerospace, AI equipment, medical equipment, microprocessors, advanced sensors, small drones and micro-robots,” the firm said in a press release.

“This new energy innovation will help China gain a leading edge in the new round of the AI technological revolution.”

The battery works by converting the energy released by decaying isotopes into electricity, through a process that was first explored in the 20th century.

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[gridley]

Aug 1, 2024 6:24:36 GMT ratty said:

Nuclear battery produces power for 50 years without needing to charge

Betavolt says its battery could power mobile phones that never need to be charged and drones that can fly forever

A Chinese startup has unveiled a new battery that it claims can generate electricity for 50 years with the need for charging or maintenance.

Beijing-based Betavolt said its nuclear battery is the first in the world to realise the miniaturisation of atomic energy, placing nickel-63 isotopes into a module smaller than a coin.

The company said the next-generation battery had already entered the pilot testing stage and will eventually be mass produced for commercial applications like phones and drones.

“Betavolt atomic energy batteries can meet the needs of long-lasting power supply in multiple scenarios, such as aerospace, AI equipment, medical equipment, microprocessors, advanced sensors, small drones and micro-robots,” the firm said in a press release.

“This new energy innovation will help China gain a leading edge in the new round of the AI technological revolution.”

The battery works by converting the energy released by decaying isotopes into electricity, through a process that was first explored in the 20th century.

Etc ...

They should call them Shipstones and push Robert Heinlein novels as part of their PR campaign...

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[Sigurdur]

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Snakes on a PlaneGreen

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Ducks with their bodyguards

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Australian Nature Study

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When misinformation and ideology combine, you get the Olympic food farce ....

‘A disaster’: Paris Olympics’ lack of ‘meat-based protein’ to lower ‘carbon footprint’ creates havoc

The German men’s hockey team has panned the food served at the Olympic Village, calling it “a disaster”, while British athletes flew an additional chef out to Paris to bridge a shortfall of supply. Andy Anson, CEO of the UK Olympic Association, lamented the lack of protein - especially chicken and eggs - on menus in the village...
The Paris 2024 Food Vision document aimed for ... reduced animal protein to lower the Games' carbon footprint ...

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I hope this wasn't Walnut's dog ...

Dog sparks Tulsa house inferno after gnawing through cellphone battery

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[blustnmtn]

Aug 9, 2024 9:57:55 GMT Sigurdur said:

But they destroyed a precious marsh land!!!  Imagine the species lost...(sarc)

[ratty]

If you have FarceBook access, there may be something of interest here?

Highlighting infrastructure as the heartbeat of nation-building.

Proprogress Philippines

[gridley]

thefederalist.com/2024/08/13/all-too-predictably-reality-is-puncturing-the-ai-hype-bubble/

"After so much hype and trillions of dollars of investment, the AI bubble seems like it might finally be bursting."

"Worse still, Taylor explains that AI programs “have run out of stuff to train on, and the more they are trained on ‘the internet,’ the more the internet contains a body of work written by AI — degrading the product in question.” Originally, a Large Language Model (LLM) like ChatGPT could review the vast quantity of human-made content across the internet and take that data to produce a unique essay that would meet the parameters of its users. But now, there is so much AI-generated content online that any essay that the LLM produces will become increasingly derivative, defective, and incomprehensible. Garbage in, garbage out."

The other problem, not really discussed in the article, is that yet again something is being called something it isn't. Current-generation AI *aren't* AI in the accepted sense from Sci-fi. They do not extrapolate. Maybe some of them can pass the Turing test, maybe they can't, but at the moment they remain bound by one of the theoretical limits of computer science - no one has yet come up with a way for a computer to extrapolate data in a chaotic system.

Will someone figure out a way around that someday? Perhaps - and when that day comes we may hit 'the singularity' FAST.

[missouriboy]

Aug 13, 2024 11:27:54 GMT gridley said:

thefederalist.com/2024/08/13/all-too-predictably-reality-is-puncturing-the-ai-hype-bubble/

"After so much hype and trillions of dollars of investment, the AI bubble seems like it might finally be bursting."

"Worse still, Taylor explains that AI programs “have run out of stuff to train on, and the more they are trained on ‘the internet,’ the more the internet contains a body of work written by AI — degrading the product in question.” Originally, a Large Language Model (LLM) like ChatGPT could review the vast quantity of human-made content across the internet and take that data to produce a unique essay that would meet the parameters of its users. But now, there is so much AI-generated content online that any essay that the LLM produces will become increasingly derivative, defective, and incomprehensible. Garbage in, garbage out."

The other problem, not really discussed in the article, is that yet again something is being called something it isn't. Current-generation AI *aren't* AI in the accepted sense from Sci-fi. They do not extrapolate. Maybe some of them can pass the Turing test, maybe they can't, but at the moment they remain bound by one of the theoretical limits of computer science - no one has yet come up with a way for a computer to extrapolate data in a chaotic system.

Will someone figure out a way around that someday? Perhaps - and when that day comes we may hit 'the singularity' FAST.

Cindy will be waiting.

[ratty]

The introduced fox is now everywhere in Australia ...

Foxes Are Masters At Adapting