new nuclear battery

I have to confess that the first two or three times this news came out, I sent it flying, the filters did not pass, and the image it shows is a render, which tells us that it does not have a built prototype or that it is hiding something from us. .

These batteries must work differently than the thermoelectric reactors of spaceships, if we go to the website of the company that manufactures this magical battery called betavol Technology company, the name already gives us a clue Beta could be because the energy is generated by Beta radiation, which is an electron or its positively charged version, the positron escaping at high speed from the atom of a radioactive element.

In summary, it says that the effect works with Beta radiation of the radioactive element nikel 63 and thin layers of diamond as a semiconductor. That does not sound cheap, although synthetic diamonds are cheaper than natural ones, the energy it produces is direct current and is modular or Several modules connected in series or parallel can be stacked to increase power from micro to several watts.

This opens up the possibility of using it in small devices such as phones and medical devices. Not having to charge your phone every night is very convenient, but it is much more convenient to have a pacemaker that will work for the rest of your life, without having to be opened again. to change the battery, by the way, this battery is not a new idea. 15 years ago, experiments were carried out where when placing a radioactive isotope next to a diamond, a small electric current was detected, it is called a diamond shockley diode.

The particles emitted by nickel 63 are electrons fired at high speed by the disintegration of the radioactive element, which when colliding with the structure of the diamond, which are carbon atoms arranged in their most resistant crystalline form, begin to make electrons jump from a carbon atom. carbon to another and that generates a flow, that is, a small electric current.

Nickel 63 has a half-life of 100 years, this means that for half of its mass to undergo radioactive decay that produces energy and converts it into another element, 100 years must pass, which is why it is a long-lasting source of energy, because The flow of Beta radiation will still be quite intense after 50 years producing electricity through the diamond shocky diodes uninterruptedly and the best of all is that when a Nickel 63 atom decays emitting Beta radiation, what is left is copper.

Copper is a stable metal, it does not produce radiation and is also super useful, it is something that is not difficult to reuse. Okay, it seems that these magical batteries are possible, but if it has been proven that they work for a decade, why do they still work? We don't use them? Why aren't they on the market? On the one hand it could be that the cost of obtaining Nikel 60 is high, obviously when mass production is needed for marketing the costs will go down but for that you need demand and it is something which I don't think is easy to achieve.

Beta radiation is relatively safe, the electrons emitted by nickel 60 cannot pass through the metal cover of the battery, so as long as it is not pierced the radiation cannot escape to damage our tissues, of course if it is damaged by something it is something that It has to be handled very carefully because you can't just throw radioactive waste in the trash.

Beta radiation is relatively safe, the electrons emitted by nickel 63 cannot pass through the metal cover of the battery, so as long as it is not pierced the radiation cannot escape to damage our tissues, of course if it is damaged by something it is something that It has to be handled very carefully because you can't just throw radioactive waste in the trash.

In short, on the one hand, you have a very practical product that could solve the problem of producing and disposing of lithium batteries, but on the other hand you have radioactive elements in consumer products and that has the vibe that it could go wrong, you would have a phone with a radioactive battery for the benefit of never running out of battery, I don't know, it's tempting.

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