Diamond battery

I've been sent this link about a diamond battery a few times now. It would be more like a primary battery. But it seems to drive electrons through radioactivity and not chemical reactions, but there's nothing wrong with that.

If one watches the video they can see the cool way this battery works

What they don't tell you is that this cannot be the holy grail of batteries. The "better battery" that changes the world.

Despite being relatively inexpensive, the cost is being compared to other diamond batteries. And they are, as you might expect, very expensive.

The feed material, despite being a hefty 95,000 tons, is nothing compared to what would be needed to change the world with battery power.

The ability to deliver current is actually very low compared to what is needed to drive a new world of batteries.

Is this a breakthrough worthy of note? It sure is. It can be the innovation that makes some formerly impossible projects possible. But if anyone that reads this blog actually sees one, that will be noteworthy in itself. Which brings up the challenge that if someone ever sees this battery, no matter how many years have gone by, please leave a comment letting me know.

Now there might be more to come in line with this technology. We might find a way to harness nuclear power directly to electricity in a practical way. Currently, we use nuclear power to make electricity by creating steam from the heat of a nuclear pile, or from thermocouples that get their heat from a similar nuclear construction.

But this isn't nearly as safe or simple or inexpensive as the diamond battery. So hopefully this diamond battery can be the next step in the right direction to getting electricity generation from a nuclear source that everyone can have at their house.