Inside China's Nuclear Battery Breakthrough
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Published 2024-02-08
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00:00 The Nuclear battery that produces power for 50 years
1:10 Nuclear Physics 101
2:24 The History of Nuclear Batteries
3:28 Betavoltaics - The Next Generation
5:48 Betavolts Claims
8:14 Does It Live Up To The Hype?
10:31 The Verdict
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All Comments (21)
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Very cool to watch this video right after Veritasium's video on the blue LED so i can understand things like the band gap and valence bands and conduction bands.
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“Lets start with the easy stuff: Nuclear physics.”
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Love having reports from people who actually understand stuff. THANK YOU!
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You missed one important issue with such batteries. Ni 63 has to be produced from Ni 62 in a reactor- Cost will be after irradiation/separation $5000 to $10,000 per gram. $per watt will be huge! serious limitation on applications
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You guys have no idea how excited i am to carry a radio isotope around in my pocket just to overpass the hurry to recharge my phone 3 times a day
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For tracking, even the low powered modules are sufficient. They can charge a [super-]capacitor and once charged, send a location tracking burst. Many applications don't need to be continuously at full power and they may fit quite well.
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It smells like a new Theranos.
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The moment a nuclear powered pacemaker is installed into my chest, it is staying. I am not going through that surgery again.
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This concept is revolutionary, imagine we use all radio active waste as power
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"Probably 100% yes." Gonna steal that.
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33uA at 3V is MORE than enough for a number of applications.... definitely interested, please do keep us up to date on this technology. (I'm an R&D engineer)
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This guy looks like what i imagine when i think of a super villain on his days off
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Great vid man - love the balanced info, kept it simple for us but explained it perfectly thoroughly
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when i saw the thumbnail i was like "what does Max Holloway know about nuclear batteries?"
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That is actually an amazing point where trackers on cargo containers would be absolutely amazing.
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Alot of Northern towns and reserves in Canada have high expense fuels to generate their electrical needs. Diesel generators which are aging out, aswell causing greenhouse gas emissions need replacing, Nuclear diamond batteries , maybe part of the answer. Perhaps you would consider a segment on compact reactors, "rtg"s and other designs, that would be swell. Keep up the good work sir..
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Off grid like Alaska where it’s hard to ship fuel in
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Low energy seems like a good fit for certain things like an air tag or bios battery or something basic like a smoke detector. I could be wrong since I don't really have knowledge about this but it seems doable with some capacitors and other battery technology to collect the trickle charge
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5:38 a battery is not something that stores stuff for later being used, a "battery" refers to a collection or series of similar objects or devices grouped together for a common purpose. The first "batteries" and most of the commonly used ones nowadays are just that, a collection of cells
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Imagine being able to use a nuclear battery in a pacemaker. Literally a nuclear-powered heart
