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Jovial Monk Gold Member Offline Dogs not cats! Posts: 51474 Gender:	Nuclear batteries? May 10^th, 2022 at 9:19pm
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AusGeoff Gold Member Offline Sage of Gippsland Posts: 6025 Victoria Gender:	Re: Nuclear batteries? Reply #1 - Jun 10^th, 2022 at 5:29pm I'm sure that Big Oil and Big Gas will shut this down ASAP.
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Reply #2 - Jun 10^th, 2022 at 6:08pm

WOW, a game changer.

And it gets rid of nuclear waste which suddenly makes nuclear power plants more attractive as well given that dealing with waste is a big deterrent for many people.

I can see a future where you'll have a diamond battery powering every house

Unfortunately I think Geoff is correct. The oil and gas industries will try to sabotage them so it might be a while before they become more mainstream..

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Jovial Monk Gold Member Offline Dogs not cats! Posts: 51474 Gender:	Re: Nuclear batteries? Reply #3 - Jun 10^th, 2022 at 6:27pm Coal, oil and gas all have a long life ahead of them—as feedstocks to the chemical industry.
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Reply #4 - Jun 10^th, 2022 at 6:38pm

Jovial Monk wrote on May 10^th, 2022 at 9:19pm:

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These batteries produce extremely tiny amounts of power.
A few hundred microwatts at best.
They are useful for remote sensors and things which require essentially no energy to operate. They aren't useful for anything else. It would take hundreds of millions of these batteries to do anything useful for a home or an EV. Obviously a non-starter. Also, this technology isn't particularly new. They are called beta-voltaics.

To put this into perspective, a tiny solar cell with roughly the same footprint as an AA battery produces 3000x more power (750x more energy with 6 hours of sun per day) than one of these nuclear diamond batteries.

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John Smith Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 78311 Gender:	Re: Nuclear batteries? Reply #5 - Jun 10^th, 2022 at 7:41pm Bobby. wrote on Jun 10^th, 2022 at 6:38pm: These batteries produce extremely tiny amounts of power. A few hundred microwatts at best. this is just the beginning. Now that the technology has been developed it won't take them long to develop bigger units. You need to stop listening to idiots from the minerals sector
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Jasin Gold Member Offline Posts: 56790 Gender:	Re: Nuclear batteries? Reply #6 - Jun 10^th, 2022 at 9:42pm Jovial Monk wrote on May 10^th, 2022 at 9:19pm: Gee. I've been telling this Forum for nearly a decade that Atomic/Nuclear batteries have already been invented. Even Isaac Asimov predicted it via his Foundation series.
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Reply #7 - Jun 10^th, 2022 at 10:28pm

John Smith wrote on Jun 10^th, 2022 at 7:41pm:

Bobby. wrote on Jun 10^th, 2022 at 6:38pm:

These batteries produce extremely tiny amounts of power.
A few hundred microwatts at best.

this is just the beginning. Now that the technology has been developed it won't take them long to develop bigger units. You need to stop listening to idiots from the minerals sector

If you filled your garage with radioactive nuclear waste, you could produce as much electricity as a AA battery.

Not sure what game it is going to change.

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Reply #8 - Jun 11^th, 2022 at 9:36am

freediver wrote on Jun 10^th, 2022 at 10:28pm:

John Smith wrote on Jun 10^th, 2022 at 7:41pm:

Bobby. wrote on Jun 10^th, 2022 at 6:38pm:

These batteries produce extremely tiny amounts of power.
A few hundred microwatts at best.

this is just the beginning. Now that the technology has been developed it won't take them long to develop bigger units. You need to stop listening to idiots from the minerals sector

If you filled your garage with radioactive nuclear waste, you could produce as much electricity as a AA battery.

Not sure what game it is going to change.

That's correct,
Monk posted this thread without checking out the details first.
The little battery referred to is only capable of flea power -
maybe running a wrist watch at most.

Any larger use would require a battery the size of a garage
and have a huge amount of dangerous nuclear waste.
Where did Monk get his BSc from?

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Reply #9 - Jun 11^th, 2022 at 10:44am

freediver wrote on Jun 10^th, 2022 at 10:28pm:

John Smith wrote on Jun 10^th, 2022 at 7:41pm:

Bobby. wrote on Jun 10^th, 2022 at 6:38pm:

These batteries produce extremely tiny amounts of power.
A few hundred microwatts at best.

this is just the beginning. Now that the technology has been developed it won't take them long to develop bigger units. You need to stop listening to idiots from the minerals sector

If you filled your garage with radioactive nuclear waste, you could produce as much electricity as a AA battery.

Not sure what game it is going to change.

Look at it this way, a garage full of nuclear waste might actually be beneficial for you. Especially if that radiation leaks through into that thick skull of yours.

It certainly can't make things any worse for you.

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