"Infinite" Battery?

[Freep]

A battery that never needs charging?

I hope I live to see this technology go mainstream.

[Bert_the_Welder]

Freep wrote:

Bert the Welder wrote:
But if you squish the graphite into a diamond, how do you keep the go-juice from squeezing out? Handling or Nuke waste and cheaper are two words I don't want to see in a sentence.

The "go juice" is two additional neutrons per atom. Changing graphite to diamond does not alter the atoms, just the arraignment.

Perhaps glow-in-the-dark diamond rings could be a side business....

[Freep]

Bert the Welder wrote:
But if you squish the graphite into a diamond, how do you keep the go-juice from squeezing out? Handling or Nuke waste and cheaper are two words I don't want to see in a sentence.

The "go juice" is two additional neutrons per atom. Changing graphite to diamond does not alter the atoms, just the arraignment.

[time2roll]

Lots of similar tech has been 2 to 10 years away for several decades.
I hope it works and turns out as good as claimed.
I speculate 10+ years before availability at the retail level.

[c_traveler2]

Over many decades the promise of a "super" battery has come and never seen the light of day. Do I believe this battery could work in a manner yes. The concept isn't new and been used in varies satellite and deep space probes.See link for story...

Nuclear power satellites

[Bert_the_Welder]

But if you squish the graphite into a diamond, how do you keep the go-juice from squeezing out? Handling or Nuke waste and cheaper are two words I don't want to see in a sentence.

[jimh406]

It might be safe or might not. Reminds me of people using early cellphones all of the time. I don’t know about you, but it seems several of the people I know who were on their phones continuously developed unexplained otherwise brain cancer. Might not be related.

Either way, I think it will be years before the techology will be on the market. Years more before it is mainstream.

[Reisender]

A1ARealtorRick wrote:

Reisender wrote:
Ok Elon. Put a big one in the Cybertruck and we are good to go. 🙂

The Cybertruck needs SOMETHING. Still the most hideous (and scary) thing I've seen in a long, long time.

Heh heh. :). I hear ya. And yet I want one. Go figure. :). My wife has a reservation for one. Then maybe she’ll give me her model 3. 🙂 She is pretty far down the list though. Something like 300,000 ish ahead of her. It will be a few year.s 🙂

[RetiredRealtorR]

Reisender wrote:
Ok Elon. Put a big one in the Cybertruck and we are good to go. 🙂

The Cybertruck needs SOMETHING. Still the most hideous (and scary) thing I've seen in a long, long time.

[Reisender]

Ok Elon. Put a big one in the Cybertruck and we are good to go. 🙂

[GordonThree]

Radiation from a single cell, or a handful might be safe. What's it look like when multiplied by thousands like a Tesla uses?

It is neat they've created a material to capture electrons directly, rather than the old nuclear batteries that relied on capturing photons.

This battery makes sense for long term implants like a pacemaker, defibrillator, maybe future stuff like a cybernetic eyes ears, etc.

[valhalla360]

DWeikert wrote:

There's carbon 14 already in your body and every bite of food you eat. It's produced naturally in Earths atmosphere. Ever hear of Carbon dating? When an organism dies it stops consuming C14 and as the C14 in its body decays the ratio of regular carbon (Carbon 12) to C14 changes. By looking at that ratio they can determine when the organism died. Or more specifically, when it stopped eating.

Lick your finger and put out a match...

Now try licking your finger and put out a campfire.

In nature, they are found at a rate of about 1 part per Trillion. Nuclear waste is several orders of magnitude higher.

[JoeChiOhki]

Well, ****, we are kinda living in the lead up world to that of the fallout video game franchise, someone just created a real-world equivalent to a "fusion core" from the game :p.

Now, all we need is power armor 😛 and the world to adopt a retrofuturistic fashion style :p.

[DWeikert]

RickW wrote:
Hmmm,

Before I retrieve my checkbook, tell me how it performs in satellites and spacecraft, an obvious first use. Also, what happens to the radioactive parts when a 12 year old takes a hammer to the thing?

Don't get me wrong, I love the story, but it is short on tangibles.

The only satellites and spacecraft that would need them are the ones sent to the outer solar system or the surface of a planet where solar is less reliable.

There's carbon 14 already in your body and every bite of food you eat. It's produced naturally in Earths atmosphere. Ever hear of Carbon dating? When an organism dies it stops consuming C14 and as the C14 in its body decays the ratio of regular carbon (Carbon 12) to C14 changes. By looking at that ratio they can determine when the organism died. Or more specifically, when it stopped eating.

[RickW]

Hmmm,

Before I retrieve my checkbook, tell me how it performs in satellites and spacecraft, an obvious first use. Also, what happens to the radioactive parts when a 12 year old takes a hammer to the thing?

Don't get me wrong, I love the story, but it is short on tangibles.