[MLUG - DISCUSSION] so, am I missing something?

[Jonathan King]

On 10/2/07, Rick <rick.buford at gmail.com> wrote:
> It would seem that this invention would be one of the most significant
> since the transistor, but I'm not seeing much buzz about it.
>
> http://www.nextenergynews.com/news1/next-energy-news-betavoltaic-10.1.html

Probably because the basic principles have been around for quite some
time, and there are some drawbacks. So wikipedia is at least a little
bit informative:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betavoltaics

Moreover, every new miraculous discovery is over-hyped. Here's a more
skeptical view:

http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/02/1231202

This is not to say that these aren't interesting or won't become
important, but I'm guessing this isn't going to be a technology that
will sweep the field anytime soon.

jking