Claims of a Tiny Nuclear Battery That Can Last 50 Years: Real or Nah?
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Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about nuclear diamond nickel batteries that allegedly may last for 50 years created by a Chinese startup Betavolt
Links:
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/cabot/what-we-do/diamond-batteries/
https://newatlas.com/energy/betavolt-diamond-nuclear-battery/
https://global-sei.com/technology/tr/bn68/pdf/68-10.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6ME88nMnYE
#nuclear #battery #physics
0:00 Nuclear battery from China
1:00 Theory behind these batteries
2:20 Generation of electricity on Earth
4:00 Unique technique for electrical generation
4:25 Solution to nuclear waste
5:00 Diamond schottky diode
6:15 Previous similar batteries
7:00 Where are my diamond batteries?
7:40 Issues
8:35 Actually kind of safe
9:30 It's all talk for now though
10:30 Similar devices we already use
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