Can I use radioisotopes to power my pc?

Can I use radioisotopes to power my pc?

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Technically? Sure.

Realistically? No.

I live near Calvert Cliffs Nuclear reactor, So I probably already get most of my power from radioisotopes.

Sure
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hahn

For anyone who doesn't know the woman in the picture is attempting to mind link with the machine. She is using what looks like a Schwarzkopf READeR, it was invented by Dr. Karl Schwarzkopf at CERN in 2006. He is most well known for his work on the LHC.

that's a geiger counter

RTGs put out a couple hundred watts usually. You could probably run a laptop off one, or a shitbox desktop.

RTGs aren't meant for high power scenarios, they're meant for cases where you need a constant low power supply, and coincidentally a heat source so your electronics don't break.

That's one hell of a qtπ

>tfw you will never cuddle with your NASA gf next to an RTG

>they're meant for cases where you need a constant low power supply
fun fact: they were used in pacemakers until quite recently

>She is using what looks like a Geiger READeR, it was invented by Dr. Kalima Geiger at CERN in 2006. He is most well known for his work on the LHC.

>until quite recently
plutonium pacemakers were very limited in numbers ever produced, and "recently" is like 40 years ago.

>they're meant for cases where you need a constant low power supply, and coincidentally a heat source

so like one weed plant? or maybe two?

:^)

touche

if your PC is a raspberry pi, and you aren't running a disply. You would need steal all the smoke detectors in the united states

yes, ruskies using RTGs in remote shitholes to power all kinds of things like beacons, lighthouses etc.(its a nice idea till som retard steals it - thats why i call tem retards - puting nukes in everything)
the other thing is how do you want get it?

Except how is a retard going to get to some remote shithole in the first place? Second if some retard does get the radioactives out, they will die, making the over all genepool less retarded

He's dead?
How?

Metal price skyrocket and metal savagers sudden appear everywhere scrapping anything metal they can find, including radioactive heavy metals.
Yep, they are fools, honestly that much uranium would sell for so much more on the black market. Yet they sell it to a scrap smelter, ruining the equipment and giving cancer to everyone involved.

Has it been that long?

Yes, my time machine worked. I am in the future! Now I just throw the swtich into reverse and ...

Cause of death is currently unknown to the public from what I can see, possibly suicide.

>builds reactor in shed
>dies at 36

now we know how TBBT ends
this retards stealing metal from chernobil exist stealing a RTG is not a problem i think it even hepened several times
like here:
youtube.com/watch?v=BE5T0GkoKG8

>stealing a RTG is not a problem
It's a huge problem and has always been.
RTGs and medical devices (ie the Goiania accident) are commonly just abandoned.
Reactor waste are typically at least marked up as dangerous and they're typically guarded, at least the high-intensity ones.

The scrap metal thieves also contaminate scrap metal going for recycling and then thousands of tons of radioactive metal are send to circulation again.
God knows how many radioactive metal objects exist because of this.

I had no idea about chernobil. Fucking gypsies, they'll steal everything.

He was a complete moron and didn't take any safety measures.

Hell, when the police arrested him, he was transporting radioactive material on his back seat in an aluminum toolbox with insulating tape on the gap

Yes if you don't mind the radiation poisoning

Its not uranium its strontium-90

>implying scrap thives give a shit
For them any metal is good

~5% enrichment for energy
~20% enrichment for medical purposes
~95% enrichment for weapons

So someone could make a really shitty dirty bomb if they spent more money on retrieving that nuclear material than it would cost to buy the same amount of material from some black market dealer.

"not a problem" do you need a sarcasm sign?
steeling shit is not the dominant of gypsies in post comie states is like bad part of the culture you steal in job, from you neigbor etc.

>Sup Forums - black market analysis

nicedeb.wordpress.com/2007/08/03/scary-mugshot-of-radioactive-boy-scout/
This is how he looked when he was arrested for transporting radioactive material. I'm not surprised he's dead, desu.

I think it's better if computer required lower power to run rather than radioactive material, we should have computers running on potato power.

He was caught 9 years later the same fucking way doing the same stupid shit.

Some morons just really want to die

But user, intel has been working on reducing power draw for several years now and all the autists on Sup Forums scream about their lack of IPC gains or clockspeed improvement.

Better than Sup Forums gaming keyboards generals

There are places with black slate so radioactive that the use as ballast for rails defrosted the tracks. It is semi-organic so you could reprocess this and extract more aggressively radioactive material to power a heat engine.

Slag from old silver refining can also be rich in uranium and hot in all three senses of the word.

I just would not do that.

huh the story was so so bad I thought it was fake.
Kinda reminds me of myself and how I'll die young whilst still stuck in the past.

dangerouslaboratories.org/radscout.html

>David had located some pitchblende, an ore containing tiny amounts of uranium, and pulverized it with a hammer.

Gee, I wonder.

>Hahn attained Eagle Scout rank shortly after his lab was dismantled.[2]

wtf i hate radioisotopes now

yee

Should have tried fusion instead.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_Wilson

>"I wanted to make a scratch in life," he explains now. "I've still got time." Of his exposure to radioactivity he says, "I don't believe I took more than five years off my life."
All of my keks

Yes you could but you would need enough equipment and radioactive material to fill a mcdonalds.

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I'm wondering what Prothero readings she is getting from that Geiger READeR. At 100 kProthero and above it should be enough to power a home with a transformer.

I already do.