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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Why can't this work:

NASA uses plutonium-238 to generate electricity for satellites in its deep space missions. Using this general approach, can a car battery be continuously charged and that battery used to power a car? Sure, new tech would have to be developed, but is this idea impossible?
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Technical hurdles and scarcity of plutonium aside, just think about how many car accidents happen in a major city on any given day, and then imagine all those vehicles involved are running on batteries being trickle charged by plutonium RTGs that just underwent a violent collision. There's just so many ways for that to go really really badly. Public safety concerns will be the number one barrier to something like this.