fossilesque@mander.xyzM to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 10 days agoIt works better if you put it in your mouth first.mander.xyzexternal-linkmessage-square21fedilinkarrow-up1301arrow-down13
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minus-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·9 days agoWhat grid? It looks like the “power box” on the wall is generating power for that house all by itself, no transmission necessary. Considering that the smallest operating nuclear reactor ever made was this big… …and that critical mass is a thing, I can only assume the “power box” was some kind of RTG.
minus-squareQuetzalcutlass@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-29 days agoWouldn’t all but the largest RTGs struggle to power more than a few incandescent light bulbs, though? Looking at the table on Wikipedia, their output is usually only from a few dozen to a few hundred watts.
minus-squarevane@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·9 days agoIt was 60 years ago. If they put same effort to it as they put to computers you would have one in your pocket.
minus-squarejj4211@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·8 days agoRTGs aren’t as limited by technological investment as they are constrained by fundamental physics.
What grid? It looks like the “power box” on the wall is generating power for that house all by itself, no transmission necessary.
Considering that the smallest operating nuclear reactor ever made was this big…
…and that critical mass is a thing, I can only assume the “power box” was some kind of RTG.
Wouldn’t all but the largest RTGs struggle to power more than a few incandescent light bulbs, though? Looking at the table on Wikipedia, their output is usually only from a few dozen to a few hundred watts.
It was 60 years ago. If they put same effort to it as they put to computers you would have one in your pocket.
RTGs aren’t as limited by technological investment as they are constrained by fundamental physics.