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The company plans to launch a more powerful single-watt version this year

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[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 31 points 3 days ago (18 children)

If it’s a small battery intended to be used a long time, pretty much a guarantee these are going to end up in the general landfill waste stream.

I wonder how much contamination one of these will cause if it goes through a waste incinerator. If they have 50 Curies of activity, that’s more than a million times what’s in a smoke detector.

[–] floo@retrolemmy.com 8 points 3 days ago (14 children)

They decay into copper, which can be easily recycled.

[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 10 points 3 days ago (13 children)

Yeah, but it’s radioactive nickel-63 for many decades until it all decays.

[–] markinov@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 day ago

And that nickel-63 can be recycled to make new batteries.

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