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[–] [email protected] 42 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Betavoltaics have been around for 40+ years. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betavoltaic_device

This device generates microwatts. You’d need thousands of them in parallel to power a typical mobile phone.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Here's the summary for the wikipedia article you mentioned in your comment:

A betavoltaic device (betavoltaic cell or betavoltaic battery) is a type of nuclear battery which generates electric current from beta particles (electrons) emitted from a radioactive source, using semiconductor junctions. A common source used is the hydrogen isotope tritium. Unlike most nuclear power sources which use nuclear radiation to generate heat which then is used to generate electricity, betavoltaic devices use a non-thermal conversion process, converting the electron-hole pairs produced by the ionization trail of beta particles traversing a semiconductor.Betavoltaic power sources (and the related technology of alphavoltaic power sources) are particularly well-suited to low-power electrical applications where long life of the energy source is needed, such as implantable medical devices or military and space applications.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Why the fuck does this bot copy the text into a code block? It makes it unreadable.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

I've done that so that it appears highlighted and seperated. Which client do you use? It's definitely readable for me.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

It appears using a monospaced font on Jerboa. It's definitely less readable than if it was in a block quote style IMO

Edit: I'd also request that you wrap the whole thing in spoiler tags so that it collapses and doesn't take a bunch of vertical space in a thread

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Thanks for the suggestions. I'll look into them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Alright so, I added a sentence reduction functionality so the bot's responses should be smaller now and also instead of using code markdown, I just made it so that the text appears bold. The spoiler markdown seems a bit unneeded here as the sentence reduction should already make the text small.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Looks fine on Boost for Lemmy IMO!