© BetavoltBV100 is poised to shape the future of energy consumption.
Released by Beijing Betavolt New Energy Technology Co Ltd, the nuclear battery utilizes nickel-63, a kind of nuclear isotope, decay technology and diamond semiconductors to miniaturize, modularize and reduce the cost of atomic energy batteries, Science and Technology Daily reported.
The company's first product, the BV100 battery, has a power of 100 microwatts, a voltage of three volts and a size of 15×15×5 cubic millimeters, which is smaller than a coin.
© Betavolt
Zhang Wei, CEO of the company, said the new type of nuclear battery can achieve stable power generation for 50 years without recharging or maintenance. It produces no external radiation. Once mass-produced and introduced to the market, it will meet the long-endurance power supply needs of aerospace, artificial intelligence devices, medical equipment, microelectromechanical systems, sensors, small drones and micro-robots. If the power output is sufficient, mobile phones equipped with nuclear batteries will no longer need recharging, and drones will not need to return for recharging.
Zhang added that the company is collaborating with domestic universities to develop higher-power batteries using strontium-90, promethium-147 and deuterium isotopes.
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Nothing written about the radiation emitted of course - and talk about an ecological disaster... but the "green" idiots just pretend their inefficient crap helps the environment while the opposite is true.
Questions:
Do they truly produce 0% external radiation, cause no radiation is a different classification standard.
Is 50yrs based on the radioactive decay rate or were they tested for 50 yrs? Cause I've replace quite a few 20,000hrs led lights, that didn't last 2,000hrs.
Bet you they aren't even looking into disposal processes yet. A worry about that later, after the fact.
Their list of uses is like ingredient lists on food packaging, consumer use is the last ingredient, meaning/implying less of.
Clearly meant for governments and military applications.
"Claimed to have developed a battery that could" all sounds a bit uncertain.
Bear in mind we saw a company that produced lightbulbs that never blew. There's a pretty obvious commercial problem with tech that lasts forever. Thats why we live in a world of planned obsolescence:)
I bet they won't be cheep to have, even though the materials won't cost much to make.
Apple Battery - 1 day (can't even make a wire either)
Just imagine that. Everything you always wanted and more.
At the flip of a switch.
(And the insertion of a needle.)
At the betrayal of others you (rightfully) deemed less worthy and advanced than you.
(And the insertion of a needle.)
Congratulations, techno-wizards, television children, computer zombies.
One shot wonders.
You rule!
ned,
out
They were a step up from the lever-action 'party line' phone we had up north for a while. You picked up the phone ear piece out of the holder which is the lever - you held it to your ear and depressed the lever several times in quick succession and waited. With any luck an operator would come on the line and ask what number you wanted to connect to and away you went - hoping that someone at the other number would pick up.
We got rotary phones when the local switchboard went automated but it was still a party-line. You had to pick up your hand set and listen to see if anyone else was on the line before dialing the number. More often than not your neighbor would be listening in because they were bored and nosey.
We think that our technology is great but with wireless telephony it's not just the neighbor who can listen in.
The CIA black projects has had this knowledge for years, given to China to produce. Part of the deal to release new technowkledge into the world. The start of the space age for the peasants.
What happens when these batteries are hit with a large solar flare and the sudden increase in ionizing energy?
Probably part of the agenda 30 program, they could blow you up with your phone like a mini nuke.
I wonder if he thought these "primary solar rays" could penetrate miles of rock and how he squared that away.
On the other hand, he had a long-term relationship with a pigeon, so one may wish to apply some grains of salt.
We don't need to investigate how rocks fall from the sky, for the very simple reason that there are no rocks in the sky which could fall. Any reports to the contrary are delusions or hoaxes.
The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
Mark Twain
What do they cost?
With that said, hypothetically speaking if such a battery can be created and the "radiation" levels kept to a minimum - then hells-bells this could be something of value that changes everything - I mean seriously - have you ever thought about "battery banks" - the world beckons and the edges have only been touched and this planet can accommodate so much - so hell yeah - I support better batteries - lithium is not that no doubt and the real Tesla knew better already....
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Anyhow - how much for one of these please - what is the cost?
BS for lacking investment from the green billionaires.
Hard to overcharge gobs of money for something made from more easily sourced materials.
Graphene is a material that is extracted from graphite and is made up of pure carbon.
I see a problem with that.