You will not be able to get such a device to market without considerable operational experience. I don't care how solid state it is. Murphy is a son of a bitch and doesn't care how fool proof your design. Murphy is continually sending out better fools. Genetically improved.Axil wrote:This is a solid state device with high redundancy and no moving parts. You can get high reliability and availability out of that type of approach.
It is a nuclear battery. You don’t repair a battery, you buy a new one.
You don't need to be concerned with proliferation, that might be worth something.
Think about it: 167 curies for 2W. 2 KW = 167,000 curies. A rather high radiation environment. 200 KW (a neighborhood generator) = 16,700,000 curies. For 20 or 100 years. Well OK in 100 years you might reduce that by a factor of 10 or 100. Along with reduced power out.
Please run by me the solid state energy producer that could last 10 years in such an environment.
It might work for Lerner because he can shut down his source and replace the collectors as needed.
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So Axil,
Please introduce yourself. What kinds of systems have you designed?
I have operated nuke reactors for the Navy and designed aircraft systems for a large aerospace company. Along with lots of commercial and military experience along the way.
Are you hardware? Or software? What level of reliability have you had to meet? What do you know about radiation induced lattice defects? Training in radiation resistant metallurgy? etc.