Ah yes, science journalism is pretty bad no matter who's making the science. At least it's not all signaphobic and crap.
But it starts off talking about the Terminator. Weird. And then it mentions that these batteries can be used in AI applications at every opportunity that they could. But these would be terrible for AI applications! AI takes a ton of energy.
But we've been using radioactive batteries in niche applications for years, and this is a great innovation in that space. Low-powered satellites and things like that might see a lot of use of these!
Yeah, science reporting continues to be terrible, but I do think that there could be a lot of neat applications for these kinds of batteries especially as chips get smaller. There's Koomey's law that's an observation that the number of computations per joule of energy dissipated doubled about every 1.57 years. Basically, to make chips faster we have to make them smaller, and that in turn means they use less energy. Batteries that trickle a bit of energy could power chips that can do a lot of computation going forward.
Ah yes, science journalism is pretty bad no matter who's making the science. At least it's not all signaphobic and crap.
But it starts off talking about the Terminator. Weird. And then it mentions that these batteries can be used in AI applications at every opportunity that they could. But these would be terrible for AI applications! AI takes a ton of energy.
But we've been using radioactive batteries in niche applications for years, and this is a great innovation in that space. Low-powered satellites and things like that might see a lot of use of these!
Yeah, science reporting continues to be terrible, but I do think that there could be a lot of neat applications for these kinds of batteries especially as chips get smaller. There's Koomey's law that's an observation that the number of computations per joule of energy dissipated doubled about every 1.57 years. Basically, to make chips faster we have to make them smaller, and that in turn means they use less energy. Batteries that trickle a bit of energy could power chips that can do a lot of computation going forward.
That's a fair point. I'm not sure where the power usage will bottom out, but low-powered devices might get useful fairly soon.
"AI is a hot topic. let's bring that up!"