{"id":13240,"date":"2013-02-28T03:00:48","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T08:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=13240"},"modified":"2013-02-28T03:00:48","modified_gmt":"2013-02-28T08:00:48","slug":"banana-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/13240","title":{"rendered":"Banana Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2013\/02\/could-you-build-a-banana-powered-generator\/\">Could You Build a Banana-Powered Generator?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Interesting thought experiment.  However,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I am assuming the energy from the beta decay and electron capture don\u2019t matter. Maybe they really do matter, but antimatter energy is cooler.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The reactions actually release more energy than the 1.02 MeV of annihilation, and since charged particles release their energy as they travel through a material, you&#8217;re going to capture much of this energy (not the neutrino energy, though) so it turns out this is a bad assumption, given that only 1 in 10^5 decays give you a positron.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could You Build a Banana-Powered Generator? Interesting thought experiment. However, I am assuming the energy from the beta decay and electron capture don\u2019t matter. Maybe they really do matter, but antimatter energy is cooler. The reactions actually release more energy &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/13240\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}