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Originally Posted by aironeous View Post
Will then I guess you better go tell these guys how stupid they are
http://www.betavoltaic.co.uk
because they say it is easily shielded.

Or the guys that won a NASA award for making a glowing powder that you can add to any paint to make it a light source, the shielding, a micropolymer. Used to be glowpaint.com and then MPKco.com but it seems they went out of business but that doesn't mean the tech wasn't valid.
Now this from Cornell University is very interesting and open to licensing and was sponsored by DARPA. If this is true whoever runs with this could make the first betavoltaic cell inside of a tablet that trickle charges the battery.
http://www.betavoltaic.co.uk/cornell...taic-cell.html

And oh look...
http://www.citylabs.net
and they overcame the regulations.
http://www.betavoltaic.co.uk/citylab...umbattery.html
However easily shielded it can be, tritium is still banned in quite a few countries.
I doubt trying to circumvent those bans to save a bit of battery power is worth the legal hassle.

As long as the keyboard backlighting can be disabled (which should be trivial), I'm not bothered.
 

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