A battery powered by nuclear waste could keep a spaceship or hospital operating for 28,000 years without needing to be recharged or replaced, its developers claim.
The radioactive battery is ‘completely safe’ for humans, according to California-based Nano Diamond Battery (NDB), who say it will ‘change the world’.
The firm hopes to start selling the battery to commercial partners, including space agencies for long duration missions, within the next two years.
Well it will be like the 100 mile per gallon carburetor from years ago, the big shots in the gas, oil and car industry killed the inventor and the project. Eveready, Duracell, and others will destroy this technology.
Now this I can get behind if it’s true
Radioactive waste, that they can not dispose of safely on their own, turned into a consumer product with no plan to have a safe disposal – like those cfl light bulbs that you can not throw in the trash and have to find a place to properly dispose of – which no one does.
Now we will have even more toxic acres of radio active landfills and radioactive water.
Great idea.
From Popular Mechanics:
“That all sounds fantastic. But the truth is more complicated. Each battery cell will produce only a minuscule amount of energy, so the cells must be combined in huge numbers in order to power regular and larger devices.”
Far out man.
CAN YOU SMOKE IT TOO MAN ?
I wonder if it can keep my wife’s vibrator going. I’m spending a fortune on batteries.
Interesting….needs to stay in the private sector….just like our new space endeavors with private industry. No red tape and making the government mindset obsolete. Keep us in the loop Joe….this could be the revolutionary change we havent had in over a decade.
Will be in the new I-Phones !!!!!