Would it be possible to make a panel that could capture radiation

>>8578897
Technically light is radiation right?

Would RTGs count? Or fungi that feed off of radiation?

I did hear of some meme where some dude claimed to use nano materials to directly convert radiation into electricity unlike an RTG.

>>8578897
Yes: look up "alphavoltaincs" and "betavoltaics".

You must have missed the huge news about C12 "diamond" batteries: half life of 5700 years makes these batteries quite impressive.

>>8578911
Not 'technically', light is photons, photons are radiation.

>>8579162
Gammavoltaics, too.

Alpha and beta radiation, along with fission fragments, practically are electricity already: flying charged particles. The difficulties come from these energetic particles damaging the collector, and inadvertently converting them to gamma rays by slowing them down too quickly. Gamma radiation is like light, but more penetrating and ionizing, because it's very ionizing, it's easy to convert to a flow of electrons, but because it's penetrating, it's difficult to build a structure that catches most of it (thick collector required).

Neutrons are easily converted to gammas from their kinetic energy, and alphas and other charged particles (such as protons, tritons, and fission fragments) from absorption reactions with atomic nuclei, although they are also very penetrating and require a thick collector.

There was an article describing a Cristal that would turn radiation into current a while ago.

Impossible because we'd be doing that already for the gas giant probes instead of suffering from the solar panel drought.

>>8579312
Too energetic and you will just end up destroying the crystal lattice of the panel and then the efficiency plummets.

>>8578897

Yes, and that's actually what they use for powering probes and shit

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>>8580524
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>>8581086
>>8580524

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_battery