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Old 01-18-2006, 09:20 AM   #13
Ziroc
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Originally posted by Ilander:
"Radioactive decay," eh. Sounds like I ought to have known that they weren't, as Shamrock said, proper nuclear reactors. I'll have to do some research!

You typically can't pick up enough energy from a solar cell from say Jupiter on out.
Yeh, the Decay is what causes heat, inturn creating power for the batteries.
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