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The company plans to launch a more powerful single-watt version this year

  • LostXOR@fedia.io
    91·
    3 days ago

    The company plans to launch a more powerful one-watt version later this year, with uses ranging from consumer electronics to drones capable of flying continuously without recharging.

    The idea of using this for a drone is laughable. Their coin-size battery produces 100 uW of power, so a small drone drawing a couple dozen watts would need to somehow carry hundreds of thousands of these batteries. Even if they’re only a gram each, that’s still hundreds of kilograms of weight.

    Use in consumer electronics is also a terrible idea. Ionization smoke detectors are already regulated due to their americium content; imagine how hard it would be to get regulatory approval for something 100,000 times more radioactive.

    • FooBarrington@lemmy.worldEnglish
      41·
      1 day ago

      I’m confused - they don’t seem to be talking about using the 100 uW version in a drone, they explicitly mention a 1 W version. What’s laughable about that?

    • yarr@feddit.nlEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      Yeah but the drone might still work. What if a second drone (armed with the same battery) follows around the first drone and supports the battery through use of a tether? Then the weight isn’t relevant.