Post #1405202
2026-04-19 18:36 UTC
The damaging kind necessarily carries enough energy to cause damage, what’s preventing it from being harvested?
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@cynar@lemmy.world 2026-04-19 21:00
Imagine you have a paper balloon setup. It randomly takes hits from a high powered rifle. In theory, you could harvest the energy. However, it’s delivered in such powerful, random bursts that capturing it is difficult. Gamma rays punch straight through the structure of the craft. The actual energy is small (around 1/1,000,000 of a joule), but it’s so focused that it damages anything it hits. If it hits the atoms in a transistor, that transistor gets ripped up at an atomic level.