floofloof@lemmy.ca to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agoBetavolt's miniature battery could spell the end of smartphone chargersmobilesyrup.comexternal-linkmessage-square63fedilinkarrow-up1159arrow-down161
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minus-squareumbrella@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up39arrow-down1·9 months ago100 microwatt is plenty for a lot of applications. it ain’t replacing lithium on phones despite what the headline suggests tho.
minus-squareTheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·9 months agoYup. Not for phones, but maybe something that doesn’t require much power, and would benefit from a very long battery life. Maybe things like doorbells in situations where connecting them to mains electricity is too cumbersome a process. Or fire alarms. I know of a couple of foolish people who, when the batteries died, they didn’t bother putting new ones in. There are lots of possibilities for this type of battery.
minus-squareCamelbeard@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·9 months agoIs that even enough for a single LED to turn on?
100 microwatt is plenty for a lot of applications.
it ain’t replacing lithium on phones despite what the headline suggests tho.
Yup. Not for phones, but maybe something that doesn’t require much power, and would benefit from a very long battery life.
Maybe things like doorbells in situations where connecting them to mains electricity is too cumbersome a process.
Or fire alarms. I know of a couple of foolish people who, when the batteries died, they didn’t bother putting new ones in.
There are lots of possibilities for this type of battery.
Is that even enough for a single LED to turn on?