• ferret
        link
        fedilink
        English
        110 months ago

        You throttle the cpu with long heavy workloads, just like phones already do due to the significant thermal constraints of the form factor.

    • @Lojcs@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      English
      3
      edit-2
      10 months ago

      My phone uses 0.6W when idle and 1.2-2.5W while I’m using it. Peaks are 8W+. No way an internal reactor only can power a phone.

      Edit: 0.3W when screen is off.

      • @fidodo@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        210 months ago

        A nuclear battery is not actually a battery, it’s a generator. Trying to run something purely off a generator is stupidly inefficient because you’d need the output potential for the max load at all times even when on average the load is much lower. You absolutely want to pair a generator with a battery. Even power plants have batteries to store excess power.

        If you think a little past the name misnomer it’s obvious that this would work by pairing it with a smaller battery to handle spikes in usage. The end result is still the same though, you’d have a phone you’d never have to plug in.

        • @Lojcs@lemm.ee
          link
          fedilink
          English
          110 months ago

          What makes you think I didn’t think past the name? If my phone had a generator it would have a 8hr sot/day limit, it’d need a not so small 1000mAh+ battery to balance out night/day usage difference and still wouldn’t last an hour while gaming. That’s not an upgrade for me