Power Packed (IMAGE)

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Power Packed

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Sandia National Laboratories physicist Paul Davids hopes that his team's rectenna may someday replace radioisotope thermoelectric generators as the go-to compact power supply for deep space missions and other uses where you can't just go and replace the batteries.

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Photo by Randy Montoya/Sandia National Laboratories

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