Message from @Lloyd
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Good that you admit it
Or am I wrong
@lolfire this nigga out here fucking people at bus stops
Is the thermal output constant that entire time?
@Data Pagan One example is the RTG used by the Voyager probes. In the year 2000, 23 years after production, the radioactive material inside the RTG had decreased in power by 16.6%, i.e. providing 83.4% of its initial output; starting with a capacity of 470 W, after this length of time it would have a capacity of only 392 W. A related loss of power in the Voyager RTGs is the degrading properties of the bi-metallic thermocouples used to convert thermal energy into electrical energy; the RTGs were working at about 67% of their total original capacity instead of the expected 83.4%. By the beginning of 2001, the power generated by the Voyager RTGs had dropped to 315 W for Voyager 1 and to 319 W for Voyager 2.
Well then fuck me I guess
Well shit
I’ve got no idea what dis is about
Soviets used them in light houses placed in the artic circle
But it’s interesting
Oh fuck
Hm?
My understanding was all jacked up
@Red Pulsating Rod Play nice
It's christmas
The thermal output would remain fairly steady most of that time since it’s always decaying at the same rate
its like half-half-half-half-half or summit, its weird and random
Hey guys
I pulled
Though the more inert material it accumulated over time would certainly leech thermal power from the rest of the system
Or am I wrong there as well
Here's a SNAP RTG on the moon
not sure tbh
i imagine it would depend on the construction.
cause like when you put summit in space, the heat got fuck all place to go 🤷
cause like nigga, no atmosphere
I mean it’s just a solid block of plutonium
can only lose it through infra-red radiation
What’s element 235, I don’t have a table handy
Here's a Soviet one just *sitting around*
@Data Pagan um
uranium...
Erm
Let me rephrase
Fuck
particularly fissile uranium
Ok so how many protons are in Pu239
It loses 2 protons and two neutrons in alpha decay
No no no