Betavolt says its diamond nuclear battery can power devices for 50 years

https://newatlas.com/ ^ | January 16, 2024 | David Szondy

[jmaroneps37]

Yes and if (and only) IF you properly fill out the registration form that comes with the Betavolt you get a lifetime guarantee that it will forever or until our company goes out of business.

[wally_bert]

A special fireproof area at Harbor Freight will be needed.

[PLMerite]

Spontaneous self-combustion is one thing.

Spontaneous self-critical-mass is a whole ‘nother level of bad. Give them more time, they’ll get there.

[Wonder Warthog]

Because the actual amount of energy produced is miniscule. Yes, it can generate an electric current, but the usable wattage is tiny. And this idea is NOT new as of 2016. It has been around for a long time.

[frank ballenger]

Caption....

Burning Love sung Elvis Presley

I feel my temperature rising
Help me, I’m flaming
I must be a hundred and nine

Burning, burning, burning
And nothing can cool me
I just might turn into smoke
But I feel fine
‘Cause your kisses lift me higher

You light my morning sky
With burning love
With burning love

I’m just a hunk, a hunk of burning love
Just a hunk, a hunk of burning love
Just a hunk, a hunk of burning love
Like a sweet song of a choir
And you light my morning sky
With burning love

[Ronaldus Magnus III]

“”the first attempt, carbon-14””

But.... But.... Isn’t Carbon evil??

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Uses radioactive isotopes.

What could possibly go wrong?

[VTenigma]

Yes, it can generate an electric current

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So can a potato.

[ridesthemiles]

AN IDEA-—NOT PROVEN-—COMPUTER DRAWN-—

[muir_redwoods]

So a terrorist buys a hundred batteries and makes his own dirty bomb. What could go wrong?

[desertsolitaire]

There was a documentary called ‘The Radium Girls’....

[desertsolitaire]

There were nuclear battery powered Cardiac pacemakers implanted in many patients. They often outlasted the patient. The company(s) tried to track the patients and retrieve the implants upon death. Concern was cremation causing radioactive contamination from burst batteries.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

My dad led the program at General Electric to build the multi-hundred watt Radioisotope Thermal Generators (RTG) for the Voyager spacecraft. His power plants on the two Voyagers are still working and producing power today! Well done, Dad!!

[Texas Fossil]

The BV100 can produce 100 microwatts at 3 volts and measures 15 x 15 x 5 mm. Beavolt estimates that such batteries could one day power a mobile phone so it never needs recharging or keep a small drone in the air indefinitely.

[BereanBrain]

It’s 1950’s technology in new skins.
you can make one in your garage.

see here

https://youtu.be/Nk8WmQ4uFFU

[Texas Fossil]

In the late 1980’s I sold watches that had a tritium dial.

They took them off the market pretty quick. There are some built today, but they are generally pretty expensive.

They were a lot brighter than radium dial watches and did not have to be exposed to sunlight to glow.

[yesthatjallen]

It either works or it doesn’t. Put it on the market so we can test it.

[FreedomPoster]

When the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

[Senormechanico]

Sure Fire Investment, LOLOL

[jonrick46]

The BV100 can produce 100 microwatts at 3 volts and measures 15 x 15 x 5 mm.

100 microvolts at 3 volts is 0.000033333333333333335 amps. Not much current here. You would have a big cost in diamond to produce anything worthwhile. Perhaps a spacecraft application would be one I can think of.