A battery made from nuclear waste that can last 28,000 years

Tutman

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A California-based company NDB has made a self-charging battery by trapping carbon-14 (C14) nuclear waste in artificial diamond-case. The company claims the battery can run for 28,000 years on a single charge.

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mlnevese

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So Fallout was right...

If this technology can be made cheap enough, we can have laptops that never need charging, emergency power for hospitals that is always ready to go in case of power failure. It could even be used to power interstellar probes as the nearest star is at least 4000 years of travel away.
 

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Possible applications on their website.

 

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Possible applications on their website.

It's never ever going to be in smartphones that's for sure because of economics and politics of planned obsolescence. We can't even recycle Lithium ion batteries properly. No one will give the green light to put nuclear waste into millions of smartphones that end up accumulating on a landfill. Furthermore I don't think you can convince anyone that it's totally safe to hold some nuclear waste to their ears or in their pockets.
 

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Be great if they do AA batteries. Nothing worse than driving an hour or two to a place, starting your metal detector and a half an hour later it dies because one or all the 4 brand new AA batteries you put in is dead.
 

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