Good evening Electronics Point folks!
Today I stumbled across this April Fools article (link) entitled "Building Nuclear Reactor At Home - From Scratch", and I was intrigued. Now, I only have my school electronics and general common sense knowledge under my belt, the most electronic work I've done in the past few years is replacing components in my transceiver and all the cable/soldering/antenna work involved in setting up a rig. So, my very limited knowledge doesn't cover this stuff, which is why I'm asking for your thoughts
To summarise the article, the author suggested using easilly obtainable Tritium-lit phosphor as the light source, and a solar cell to convert that light into useable electricity to power an LED.
Now, the basic idea behind it seems sound. If it did work as stated, you could indeed call it a "nuclear reactor", which is the cool part
Being an April Fools article however, I suspect that the truth of the matter is that the light emitted, and eventual conversion to electricity (if any at all), would be far too little to even power a single, tiny LED. And that is my question! Is it even possible to put something together that will run a tiny LED?
Today I stumbled across this April Fools article (link) entitled "Building Nuclear Reactor At Home - From Scratch", and I was intrigued. Now, I only have my school electronics and general common sense knowledge under my belt, the most electronic work I've done in the past few years is replacing components in my transceiver and all the cable/soldering/antenna work involved in setting up a rig. So, my very limited knowledge doesn't cover this stuff, which is why I'm asking for your thoughts
To summarise the article, the author suggested using easilly obtainable Tritium-lit phosphor as the light source, and a solar cell to convert that light into useable electricity to power an LED.
Now, the basic idea behind it seems sound. If it did work as stated, you could indeed call it a "nuclear reactor", which is the cool part
Being an April Fools article however, I suspect that the truth of the matter is that the light emitted, and eventual conversion to electricity (if any at all), would be far too little to even power a single, tiny LED. And that is my question! Is it even possible to put something together that will run a tiny LED?