Festkörper-Atombatterie verspricht 100-Jahres-Stromversorgung für Ultra-Low-Energy-Geräte
https://interestingengineering.com/energy/nrd-nuclear-battery-nbv
Festkörper-Atombatterie verspricht 100-Jahres-Stromversorgung für Ultra-Low-Energy-Geräte
https://interestingengineering.com/energy/nrd-nuclear-battery-nbv
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I have never heard of this before, but it sounds legitimate. They could be used for pacemaker, to avoid surgery every 10 years.
[Radioisotope thermoelectric generator](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_generator) (RTG) technology is about 70 years old.
The graphic above says tritium (Hydrogen-3), but the article says the battery is based on Nickel-63. The usual crap from interestingengineering.
Inventor needs to make a will.
Having just watched „[Radioactive Emergency](https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/radioactive-emergency-release-date-news)“ on Netflix, this seems like a really bad idea.
Sounds like I would have to worry about my zigbee sensors ever running out of battery
Brotherhood of Steel might be interested
Tritium? I’m surprised they’re claiming 100-year battery life. I thought tritium had a half-life of about 10 years.
Not a battery.
Idk why this is so hard to understand. It’s not a battery.
I see this misstate all the time about what a battery is and isn’t and it drives me crazy. This doesn’t store energy, it creates it. That makes it a tiny generator, not a battery.
Can you imagine a petson neglecting thier ion battery upgrade then go to open it up and its nuclear battery levels of corroded.
They could have used this on Gilligans Island.
I can see this being useful for LoRA style telemetry on infrastructure sensors.
Sounds like The Foundation technology
The issue never was to manufacture something like this, the issue is making it safe enough for general public.
Me I eat dust.
Ok.. the 100 year mark is the half life of Nickel 63 as it is only 3V with a low amp to produce at tops 33 mA (100 mW).(went around and poked around to find the specs).
It is for keeping something vital on for a long time, it is sort of two AAA crappy baterries in power. Think something like your old tv remote (before smart tvs) or a gameboy color in computer power… it has niche uses, and the quantity of radiactive material is low (i think in micrograms).
For scientific and some sensory/monitoring information this is enough. Like you need yo collect sensor reading and store data to ping a nearby radio station. Instead of having a battery a solar panel and the sensor, you can slap one of this and call it a day. I can se uses of it, specially on hard to go places or to long run experiments that you want a backup energy just to keep the bare minimum until a team can fix the main energy souce.
As it is radioactive, it will provably follow the same procedurea of being labelled correct, only handled by people that trained. We do not want another Cesium 138 case anywhere in the world (https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acidente_radiol%C3%B3gico_de_Goi%C3%A2nia kids ate Cesium because of its glow…).
Nickel 63 is (mostly) manmade, and it is a beta decay,so it becomes cooper and stabilizes… if it is enclosed it is safe, if it is exposed, it will (under the quantity on one battery) probably will be safe to look and assess any damage and call someone to handle it properly. If ingested i think will not be fun times…