#diamond battery

[intelligentliving]

Nano-Diamond Battery Made From Nuclear Waste Could Last 28K Years

Imagine if you only had to charge your phone battery or tablet once every nine years, wouldn’t that be nice? Well, that’s becoming a reality, thanks to US-based startup NDB, which is developing a nano-diamond battery made of nuclear waste that could last up to 28,000 years. Nano-diamond technology could...

[talesofdrunkennessandcruelty]

Radioactive Diamond Batteries: Making Good Use Of Nuclear Waste

[mingmagazine-blog]

Scientists Turn Nuclear Waste Into a Battery

Energy needs need to be addressed.  Consequently, there is one such group trying to address those needs in an unexpected way.  Scientists at the University of Bristol have created a battery. So you may be asking yourself:

What’s so special about this battery?

Could it power a yellow submarine?

Firstly, the power for it is made from extracted Nickel-63 (with plans for Carbon-14) from nuclear waste.  Also, the shape of the energy is compressed into a diamond battery.  That’s right, a nuclear waste diamond battery.

With a life expectancy of thousands of years, a person with a pacemaker would never need another surgery to replace a battery.  There could even be a secondary market for pacemaker batteries where the cost goes down per owner.

Head over to Twitter and let them know.

Diamond batteries are forever*.

Furthermore, the scientists at @BristolUni are asking the public to come up with ideas for use with the diamond battery by using the hashtag #diamondbattery.

Having every energy need met while exploring space would be a great use.  Actually, batteries meeting all energy needs would be outstanding.

There are other batteries in development.  However, these devices don’t utilize recycled radioactive garbage, giving a second long-term life to something that is otherwise bad for us.

The scientists at the University of Bristol believe they have solutions to a few of the problems.  This is summed up best by Professor Tom Scott1:

“There are no moving parts involved, no emissions generated and no maintenance required, just direct electricity generation. By encapsulating radioactive material inside diamonds, we turn a long-term problem of nuclear waste into a nuclear-powered battery and a long-term supply of clean energy.”

Finally, with this and other energy solutions in the works, the twenty-second century is looking to be better suited to providing everyone with energy.

Thanks for stopping by,

Colin

Citations

1.

November: diamond-power | News | University of Bristol. http://bristol.ac.uk. http://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2016/november/diamond-power.html. Published November 25, 2016. Accessed March 2, 2017.

[mingmagazine-blog]

Scientists Turn Nuclear Waste Into a Battery

Scientists Turn Nuclear Waste Into a Battery

Energy needs need to be addressed.  Consequently, there is one such group trying to address those needs in an unexpected way.  Scientists at the University of Bristol have created a battery. So you may be asking yourself:

What’s so special about this battery?

Could it power a yellow submarine?

Firstly, the power for it is made from extracted Nickel-63 (with plans for Carbon-14) from nuclear waste.  Also, the shape of the energy is compressed into a diamond battery.  That’s right, a nuclear waste diamond battery.

With a life expectancy of thousands of years, a person with a pacemaker would never need another surgery to replace a battery.  There could even be a secondary market for pacemaker batteries where the cost goes down per owner.

Head over to Twitter and let them know.

Diamond batteries are forever*.

Furthermore, the scientists at @BristolUni are asking the public to come up with ideas for use with the diamond battery by using the hashtag #diamondbattery.

Having every energy need met while exploring space would be a great use.  Actually, batteries meeting all energy needs would be outstanding.

There are other batteries in development.  However, these devices don’t utilize recycled radioactive garbage, giving a second long-term life to something that is otherwise bad for us.

The scientists at the University of Bristol believe they have solutions to a few of the problems.  This is summed up best by Professor Tom Scott1:

“There are no moving parts involved, no emissions generated and no maintenance required, just direct electricity generation. By encapsulating radioactive material inside diamonds, we turn a long-term problem of nuclear waste into a nuclear-powered battery and a long-term supply of clean energy.”

Finally, with this and other energy solutions in the works, the twenty-second century is looking to be better suited to providing everyone with energy.

Thanks for stopping by,

Colin

Citations

1.

November: diamond-power | News | University of Bristol. http://bristol.ac.uk. http://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2016/november/diamond-power.html. Published November 25, 2016. Accessed March 2, 2017.

[nebris]

Researchers have found a way to use diamonds to convert nuclear waste into long-lasting batteries. A team of physicists and chemists at the University of Bristol discovered the new technology, which transforms thousands of tons of troublesome nuclear waste into lab-grown diamond batteries capable of generating a small amount of electricity. The diamond batteries, like the precious gems they are based on, could last essentially forever. 

Ushering in what researchers are calling the “Diamond Age” of battery power, the technology developed by the University of Bristol team uses man-made diamonds formed from nuclear waste, plus a small amount of radioactive energy, to create a low-current battery durable enough to outlast human civilization. The team unveiled their discovery on Friday at a sold-out lecture at the Cabot Institute. While traditional batteries require wires and coils to operate, the diamond-based battery needs only to be placed near a radioactive source in order to begin generating small electrical currents. The lack of moving parts makes the battery far more durable than its conventional counterparts. 

http://inhabitat.com/new-man-made-diamonds-turn-nuclear-waste-into-long-lasting-batteries/