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Carbon-14 based diamond beta decay battery technology
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bson:
Ran into this... Intriguing. I wonder if it can be made economical, and without the atom haters have a spastic meltdown.
https://newatlas.com/energy/nano-diamond-self-charging-batteries-ndb/
14C seems to decay into 14N, which is harmless, and could probably be released through diffusion.
sibeen:
There is already a thread, started yesterday, in the Power & Renewable Energy section.
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/renewable-energy/nano-diamond-self-charging-nuclear-based-battery-to-last-thousands-of-years/
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