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Diamond battery - Wikipedia
Or at least a couple of thousand years anyway, Betavoltaics is the process we use to harness electrical current from the beta decay of radioactive material, Beta particles are essentially just high energy electrons, So really all one needs to produce electric current is a semiconductor and some radioactive material and there you have it, While not exactly free energy, It will someday as all things run out of power, but the task of changing those batteries would be a job for your great-great-grandchildren. Betavoltaics are safer and much smaller than the "nuclear" batteries we use in space stations and satellites, while those batteries are powered from the heat given off by the radioactive material Betavoltaics are powered by the beta decay given off from the material directly making them much safer and cheaper to mass produce
A prototype Of RCA'S Atomic Battery from 1954
RCA'S Atomic Battery from 1954 used Strontium 90 for its power source it was later discovered that long term exposure to strontium 90 could cause leukemia. Thing's looked very bleak for betavoltaics back in those days. But time marches on and we've come a really long way, for decades science has been searching for ways to safely harness the power of betavoltaics, Recently Doctor Neal Foxx
from the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom has begun making betavoltaic prototypes out fo Carbon 14 a naturally occurring radioactive isotope that's in our atmosphere and in all living things, and pressing it into Diamonds
Carbon 14 is also a waste byproduct of nuclear powerplants, Neal Foxx believes that not only can we create near limitless power from our nuclear waste, But clean up a few urgent messes while we are at it. In Neals own words, Carbon 14 is a very attractive isotope as it's not on the list of particularly nasty isotopes and is therefor a friendlier material to work with and just happens to be a lot safer to biological life than previous betavoltaic options. Admittedly the power generated from Doctor Neal's experiments hasn't been that great, He has harnessed enough power from his synthesized carbon 14 diamonds to power Things like smoke detectors, Emergency signs, IoT devices, Jet engine sensors, deep sea cable detectors, and E-readers. While the power output is low, the longevity of betavoltaics is outrageous. Some lasting anywhere from decades to centuries to millennia,
Over the years, We have seen so many great options to power our daily products, With betavoltaics and Diamond batteries just being the latest of many we have seen over the years, Things like this lead me to question, Is Technology really the limitation that keeps us from advancing the methods we use to power our devices? Or could the reason we need to constantly go to the store and buy more batteries be a little bit more sinister. Maybe they have a power monopoly over those retailers and outlets and they want us to keep going?
