Posted on 08/25/2020 6:44:53 AM PDT by Heartlander
I need one for my watches.
I hate having to replace the batteries in these damn things all the time...................
But if we shutdown and close all the commercial nuclear power plants in the world, where will the nuclear waste for these batteries come from ???
That’s just about the right amount of time needed for my watch battery....................
Overall, it fits the “Sounds too good to be true...” warning.
Many things we take for granted today were considered “too good to be true” at one time.
Well, Plutonium-238 is okay as long as you don’t go thru the airport scanners.......................
Hmmm...
Carbon-14 has a specific activity of 62.5mCi per mmole (2.31GBq per mmole)
The half-life of Carbon-14 is 5715 y
its a smart batttry .
I’m charged about this :)
“...generates less radiation than the human body...”
I didn’t realize the human body generates GAMMA radiation, which is what I thought had saturated the nuclear waste materials this thing uses. You know— the type of radiation that passes through everything but lead and mutates cells, causing cancer and radiation sickness and such. Somebody needs to explain to me how these things are safe.
Hmmm...
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/radioactive-diamond-batteries-real-thing/
...The actual amount of carbon-14 in each battery has yet to be decided but one battery, containing 1g of carbon-14, would deliver 15 Joules per day. This is less than an AA battery. Standard alkaline AA batteries are designed for short timeframe discharge: one battery weighing about 20g has an energy storage rating of 700J/g. If operated continuously, this would run out in 24 hours.
...Using carbon-14 the battery would take 5,730 years to reach 50 per cent power, which is about as long as human civilization has existed. However, it is unlikely that the diamond battery will provide direct power to an attached device. More likely is that it will be associated with a capacitor that will be ‘trickle charged’ by the battery and then discharge at set intervals, to power devices at set intervals or to continually power low draw devices.
They are not very efficient. 2000 watts of heat, for 125 watts of electricity. 6.25% efficiency.
This thing better be much more efficient, or you will need a big heat sink to cool your phone.
Take my money, please.
Exactly. Show me one in a AA form factor powering something serious for a few days, then I’ll sit up and pay real attention.
I have a perpetual motion machine in my basement but I haven’t figured out to plug my phone charger in it.
One of the things some watches have is tritium to provide what they call lume to read it in the dark. That tritium gives off a small amount of radiation. It would be interesting to compare the battery to tritium coated markers in terms of radiation.
Invented by white guys, these have to be fascist and evil.
Dilithium Crystal....
Need more power Scotty....
“Think of it in an iPhone.”
Anybody see a problem with holding a small bit of radioactive matter to your ear for up to an hour a day, everyday? We already have people claiming the microwaves that the handsets generate are dangerous.
Those kinds of batteries were good enough for Red Dwarf.
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