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    How long before we see these in consumer products? If we do, I'll be they are called anything BUT nuclear!
    FT.

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    They just have to convince people they're safer than the mercury watch batteries currently scattered throughout landfills worldwide.

    Kevin

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    • #3
      Or that nuclear battery equipped iPods won't explode.
      "For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism."

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      • #4
        Originally posted by TransformX View Post
        Or that nuclear battery equipped iPods won't explode.

        "Half of New York city's upper east end was lost today when a chain reaction of fifty iPhone nuclear batteries exploded today..."

        “Inside every sane person there’s a madman struggling to get out”
        –The Light Fantastic, Terry Pratchett

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          There are already thousands of people running around with nuclear pacemakers; they started making them in 1970. We put in a ton of them, and so did heart centers all over the US and Europe.

          The longest-lived one I'm aware of is 36 years and still ticking. Theoretically they could still drive the circuit after 85+ years.

          They went out of favor when LiION's came along but times change....
          Last edited by Dr Mordrid; 12 October 2009, 13:05.
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          • #6
            Originally posted by Dr Mordrid View Post

            They went out of favor when LiION's came along but times change....
            Minor correction: Li-ion are rechargeable and have a short life. The batteries used are Li-anode primary cells. My first pacemaker was replaced after 8 years, my second after 11 years and my third after 3 months (because of an infection). At last check-up, the remaining battery life was min 10 years max 14 years. No Li-ion would last this length of time.
            Brian (the devil incarnate)

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