World’s First NUCLEAR DIAMOND BATTERY
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ม.ค. 2025
- You may have heard of batteries made from nuclear waste, but these new power sources are a bit different. They use the beta decay of carbon-14 to generate a small amount of electricity that could in theory last THOUSANDS of years.
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For anyone wondering about other uses for these, space probes that need little amounts of power to last awhile can use these
If they were real unfortunately they're not. They got sued for fraud by the SEC 2023. Don't remember if they were just lying about power output or the technology as a whole. But if you type nuclear diamond battery lawsuit You should get plenty of information on what happened.
I just want it in the TV remote, I'd pay 100 monies for a TV remote that never died!
Be a great way to perseve a probe for alien civilations to discover
How? They output on the order of a microwatt of power. There's few things that can usefully use that. And for most of those things, their lifespan is limited by other factors and could instead use a cheap and simple primary battery for many many years.
They will go bankrupt, it's just with lightbulbs or the glasses that only hardly brake
One step closer to chaos emeralds
I was thinking kyber crystals, but that works too
"where's that DAMN fourth chaos emerald?"
- Edgy the Hedgy
Real
or infinite stones
*_You mean the Chaos Emeralds? I assume you mean the Chao Emeralds cause I got one of them right here._*
I have been following this development for about 4-5 years. It came out of research into using graphite waste from nuclear reactors. The graphite is compressed into synthetic diamonds and Voi la nuclear batteries! Love it. I look forward to see if it can be upscale somehow
It's a photovoltaic power cell. It cannot be upscaled for larger applications requiring high drain power sources.
@ what about stacking to charge more conventional batteries??
@@matttaylor7102 Any kind of battery can be combined in series or parallel combinations to provide a higher voltage or current - or if for some wierd reason they can't, electronics can be added to provide the needed voltage and / or current.
However, for these batteries, it is very likely that the cost will make them prohibitive for higher-power applications.
These batteries have a particular use case - i.e. long life and low power where cost is a secondary issue.
@@matttaylor7102
Voi la ??
@@demonkinglamb636 So are you missing the point of why this was even talked about in the first place, or..?
You could actually power a tiny LED basically forever or the LED Burns out quite often before the battery dies. I guess it would power a watch in definitely as long as it isn't smart
No you can't. One NDB technology doesn't exist they're currently getting sued by the SEC. Current betavoltaic batteries generate somewhere between 50 and 400 nanowatts of power. Which really isn't enough to light an LED.
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Ke thabela go tloša letlalo la bathobaso ba ditšhila tša letlalo la masepa ba phela ka gobane diteng tša ka di kaone kudu (hlahloba ya ka ka nna) .,,,..////
You would either need to have a REALLY small LED or a REALLY big diamond battery to actually make it work
@patricksarama4963 LED run at tiny current, of course they won't be bright
Finally, now I won't have to plug in my controllers to play games anymore
YEEEEESSSSS....! THIIIIISSSSSS...!
You would just need millions of them to even approach a single AAA battery
and millions of dollars to buy em
@@AltonV or be so good at gaming that you can beat anything with minimal button inputs
Hey, if we can beat Dark Souls 3 on the bongo, we can beat games on micro-nuclear diamond batteries
@@photoo848 Yeah ok so.. No controller juice and just have nonexistent plot armor for game controller juice, Totally a logical sense i can't worth bargaining for!
The space obsessed personality core from Portal 👌🏻
Space space
Spaaace
He has a name, you know.
Spaaaaaaaaaaaaaace
This would be fantastic for remote sensors. Pair it with supercap and the sensor could wake up when the cap is full, record it's readings, then go back to sleep until it has enough power again.
I love how much you emphasize how tiny the amount of power it makes is
I wouldn't say he emphasized it enough. Current beta voetaic technology maxes out around 400 nanowatts.
Also the nuclear diamond battery people were sued by the SEC for fraud.
Tiny D. Randy is coming?
Yeah, also betavoltaic batteries powered by tritium have been used in pacemakers for decades now, this isn't new tech. While C-14 might have a long half life, it also has a low decay energy, which means that even if your power harvesting were 100% efficient, there just isn't much power coming off of the sample to power anything really. There's just no use case, even extreme aerospace applications, where nano or low micro watts of power from a 100 gram source is going to be beneficial
@@blindsniper35 Are any of those people involved with the University of Bristol and the UK's AEA, since the SEC was suing NDB Inc., which was based in the US.?
@@Spencergolde I wouldn't say it's none but it's definitely incredibly niche. Tiny primary batteries would also last many years for most use cases that could even consider them. Kyle should definitely have emphasized just how small the power output is.
The Enrichment Center reminds you that although circumstances may appear bleak, you are not alone. All Aperture Science personality constructs will remain operational in apocalyptic, low power environments of as few at 1.1 volts.
Wasn't that basically what fuels Voyager? A nuclear battery?
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No, that was an RTG. That uses the thermal output from the radioactive source as it's energy for an engine. If I remember correctly it's a sterling cycle that was used on Voyager.
Also the NDB people are currently getting sued by the SEC.
@@OFFICERSQUIDWARD shut up
@@blindsniper35: Not a Stirling engine, just a thermionic converter. Aka a Peltier cooler running in reverse, with the hot plutonium-248 on the inside of a cylindrical Peltier element and radiator fins on the outside.
@@blindsniper35 Stirling engines heated by radioactive decay haven't been fielded for anything yet. They've only been tested in labs.
Space? SPACE?! SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE
I just love how this guy *swishes* his hair as he turns with such drama! The science is also top notch, Kyle.
Nuclear power technically has made humans steampunks
@taranox5489 That's our secret, we have been for a long time. If it's not liquid water turning turbines, it's steam, usually.
Steampunk, solarpunk and in the transition phase to cyberpunk
I can already imagine the diamond powered automatons still roaming the earth after humanity goes extinct
The low, continuous power output battery is, on many ways the holy grain of deep space probes. RTGs are tremendously expensive and utilise a very limited resource. If we can get comparable outputs from another source for less cost, then we're quids in.
RTGs are like.. 100s of Watts tho right?
@@PasticheofSkin nanowatts*
I assume they can also use a bunch of them in a “pack” or something to generate more power to hopefully be more useful?
The problem is size and cost. Most of the applications are ones that require power without stop, like pacemakers.
@@mr.cauliflower3536 Yeah, I mean it's emerging technology. With more investment and time I'm sure they can increase output like with all batteries. This would be huge for space, and even nuclear waste facilities where you really want a light or sign to stay powered forever.
[aperature science demo introduction music]
(Shocking lack of portal 2 references down here, huh)
J.K Simmons must be rolling in his grave, oh wait, it's not 2pm yet.
Kyle: "Seems like everything is going nuclear these days, huh?"
Me: "It's about time."
I mean, it's always been nuclear power, sometimes just with a few extra steps
Seriously.
These have been around for a while in theory
Guess what? Infinity stones aren't fiction anymore
People seem to be missing the potential of this new development. They’re all focusing on the fact that it produces a minuscule amount of power, measuring the worth of just one battery…
But what happens when you connect thousands of these in series?
My guess is the assembly will produce significantly more power, with no emissions or waste, in any possible environment, for over ten human lifespans.
They're probably insanely expensive though
@@ascherlafayette8572 coal and apply pressure. You got a diamond 😅😅😅
@@death13a I think they were more talking about making the diamond produce power being expensive. One of these, with it being extremely new tech would cost _a lot._ multiply that by the thousands needed to produce a usable amount of voltage, and you have a neat RTG that's probably at least a good few _times_ the cost of the already expensive MMRTG used by NASA.
@@ascherlafayette8572 It's a brand new technology, if governments invest in it we may be able to reduce costs.
One step closer to fusion cores
The diamond itself isn't going to shield jack. It would prevent leakage of the source, but you would need multiple inches of diamond to fully shield the secondary Bremstrahl xrays produced from the beta particle. It's much more space efficient to use a lead or tungsten capsule for shielding instead.
I’m still confused why it’s called a better when it’s clearly a generator or even reactor. It produces power, not simply stores it
I guess it would depend on the actual science behind it. Maybe there's more to it than he's describing.
@@Stratus41298 I’ve seen a few videos on it but everyone is saying it produces power. Which would make it more like a generator
I think people, on the whole, won't comprehend the difference between probability and power generation versus storage, so they call it a battery.
Was a small portal 2 soundbite at the end?
if it lasts so long then put it in a god damn phone 😂
So really good for long term space missions where instruments need a trickle of power? Neat
A diamond powder battery. Wow my calculator can be more fancier than my best friend's engagement ring.
Kyle, thank you for using a quote from the Space Core!!
As cool as this is, it doesn't really have many uses. Now say it had the power output of your regular AA bat and it would genuinely change the entire world. Unfortunately I'm not sure we could manufacture such a thing except if we play with some more exotic matter types but then weight becomes a problem. We need them to be portable, we need them to produce a fair amount of power, and we need them to be cheap. If only the Universe would let us have some fun damn.
Yes, this battery output is messured in microwatts, which is a millionth of a watt
The longer it lasts the slower it releases its energy. If it lasted 100 years instead of 1000s it would be more useful.
@adrianthoroughgood1191 There's gotta be some way to accelerate the output somehow, it shouldn't be impossible
It will run a Heart monitor! So you don't need to be operated to change battery! 😊😊
@@dud3655 it's dictated by the rate of decay of the C14, ie its half-life. There's nothing you can do to change that. You can only choose a different radioactive element. This was chosen because it gives off a suitable type of radiation to generate electricity but also not leak radiation outside of the diamond enclosure. But also it's readily available. It is extracted from radioactive waste from nuclear reactor graphite moderators. The UK has a stockpile of 95,000 tonnes of this radioactive graphite.
You can fool me, I know an infinity stone when I see one
holy shit thats awesome!!! you had me at beta decay! reminds me of the selenium nuclear battery idea.
I heard that Space Space!
I had a theory that type of battery was probable in 2003. I drew up many such plans in a composition book for my science classes. I really enjoyed energy science and its exploration in different ways.
Sounds like an arc reactor.
The funny part is it's typically used as pacemaker batteries
This seems incredibly useful for very niche circumstances and I’m all for it
I'm wondering what influence in particular the diamond is meant to protect it from. I mean, diamonds break pretty easily, and they can burn. To clarify, I realise that the amount of radiation emitted by the source isn't enough to hurt anyone, and that the device sensitive enough to be damaged by it will absolutely be destroyed by the amount of impact needed to break the cell, not to talk about burning it, but still
@@nabra97 would you be surprised to hear that these people have / are being sued by the SEC for fraud, Because they are. They also falsely claimed to have nerd rage as a consultant as well. The whole thing is a bit bizarre. But if you look up nuclear diamond battery with the combination of SEC or fraud you should find out more about them.
So the answer is because it sounds good two people who don't think about it too hard or know better. I mean just ignoring the whole diamond claims bit. They're claiming to concentrate carbon-14 from graphite low-level waste. Then make CVD diamonds out of it. I mean you could do it but there'd be some serious safety concerns and that isn't you know cheap.
Also if you know about betavoltaics their claims are just lunacy. The more you do any amount of physics or engineering to this the more it doesn't make sense.
The solution to powering a nuclear waste storage bunker for eternity could be a tiny bit more nuclear stuff.
I’m from where this was made so the information about it came from here crossed the Atlantic to Kyle only for him to send it back across the Atlantic to me.
Interesting when you think about it.
"I'm in space"
- space core from Portal 2
Ah yes I will power my wrist watch with this SUV for millions of years.
Wait was that the portal 2 space robot at the end?
I think it's in the microwatts right now, which is very tiny and not really useful for general applications, but if they ever make it to 3V and milliwatts of power, this could be huge. I can count five things around me that are powered by very tiny batteries with small but critical current.
But energy is so small... you can't even taste it with your tongue ;)
Thanks, Jason Momoa
What I need in my watch 😅
Tony Stark's Arc Reactor is basically a magically super powerful betavoltaic.
I look forward to getting a few of these for my TV remote.
I really hope they make the next batch of Divemasters for luner astronauts with this. It would be so cool to have a 5000 year watch that went to the moon
Nuclear diamond battery was NOT on my 2025 bingo card
That's cool, hopefully they can find some way to scale up the production of energy from it.
This is going to be the "this invention can store about 2 mega bytes of information" story isn't?
"What 'da we name it?!"
(Lab assistant breaks out the Big Science Book of Buzzwords)
"Quickly, write that down!"
"Whi.. which one I haven't even
..."
"Yes... All of it!"
I need a buzzword battery for my phone, please.
Friend: Bro why dont i ever see you charge your phone
Me: I got a battery upgrade and had the charge port removed. My phone is nuclear.
I’m going to guess that it produces less power than can safely be extracted from a AA battery.
Yeah, but for... Ever....
A tiny generator exhibiting nanowatts of power. I guess it's useful for a small tracker that gives off pings forever
Oh cool I hypothesize you can make a battery like this but my theory was using the alpha decay of nuclear waste. Nuclear waste in a containment facility is still capable of giving off alpha particles which you could then use as a source of electricity. It's not a lot of electricity but it's a constant source of electricity. What does much weight as we have previously created you can get a lot of power out of it
One step closer to Rimworld self powered ancient lamps.
I too created a diamond battery...wait, hold on..sorry, nothing more than a kidney stone 😂😂😂 my bad...
Thank you for dumbing it down so laymans like me can understand. This stuff is fascinating.
I feel like I saw an article about this yesterday ago
Or you install a capacitor to build up a higher charge? But this is actually pretty cool, maybe not on a consumer level yet but still pretty cool.
Now I'm wondering if there would be a way to get the electrons to store in the diamond or possibly something else incorporated in it for larger bursts of energy instead of a constant trickle? Or perhaps controlling the amount of decay to allow for the release of more electrons.
That's why Mr. Freeze hunted those Diamonds!
Could power small satellites or deep space probes(basically the new voyager) that they have small ion engines or for their electronics
Imagine needing to change 1000's of these at once.....
"It uses those electrons to create a _TIIIINY_ amount of electricity"
Foaley's been using these in his Neutrinos for decades, man.
The harshest conditions is my pocket. I need that in my phone.
De Beers sweating profusely
Kyle: have you watched the EEVBlog video about that? If not, please do it now
@@jorgealzate4124 Yeah that one was weird. It got debunked around when it was launched pretty hard. Then in 2023 the SEC sued the NDB people for fraud and then they got more video coverage. Nerd rage had to make a video because somehow he was involved in this because they falsely claimed he was a consultant. So the SEC contacted him apparently.
I want my computer to run on these just for the coolness factor
I can't believe there's not a single reference to Arnold Schwarzenegger's Mr Freeze whose whole thing is a diamond power freeze ray in Batman and Robin
I wonder if this could power a red dot, wristwatch, or other electronics that use small watch batteries.
Thank you, mister werewolf Aquaman Jesus Sir. You’ve shared bountiful knowledge with the universe.
Just one thing……
Is there a missis werewolf Aquaman Jesus? ._.
Reeeeeeaaaaaalllllly? (Ace Ventura)
Why not use a more dense, more energetic radioactive compound? They'll have shorter half-lives and be more dangerous to be around for us humans, but they'll produce more electricity. It also comes with the technical challenge of building a semi-conductor out of a material with a band gap of as high as the semiconductor needs. Band gap is what makes a material electrically conductive or insulative, its determined by the number of protons in each ring and a couple other factors. Band gap of higher than 3 is insulative, band gap of lower than 1 is conductive. So, the higher the frequency of energy of being put into a semiconductor, the higher the band gap needed, but in turn it produces more electricity
So I'm hearing "magic crystals powering mysterious, ancient tech in the deep future"
Omg this is just like in science fiction where things are powered by magic rocks
I can’t believe Kyle just said, “other buzzwords?”
I came for ALL the buzzwords, not no filler!! 😂
"Other buzzwords" 🤯🤯🤯 you sir have my full undisputed attention
Can we finally get a watch that NEVER have to check battery?
I hope that last joke doesn't age poorly.
Ok so Bristol University is my local university but I feel like it’s been part of every major discovery and advancement for a few months now. Every new paper i see is Bristol, Bristol, Bristol.
Whether it’s palaeontology, medicine or nuclear physics.
Snow Crash is taking a little longer to come true than Neal foresaw, but we seem to be getting on track now.
Imagine if they could figure out a diamond nuclear battery with even just the output of a lithium ion smartphone battery.
We could try for the even lower goal of imagine if the nuclear diamond battery company wasn't a scam. They literally got sued by the SEC for defrauding their investors about their technology.
"Nuclear Diamond Battery" is the name of my Primus tribute band.
who had "sonic's chaos emeralds in real life" in their bingo cards for 2025?
Were getting closer and closer to the Fallout timeline’s atomic age
Didnt another country announce this a year or so ago
This will work great as a CMOS battery in a space probe
This is why supermechagodzilla could endure Heisei Godzillas atomic breath
Well, they did dabble with chicken powered nuclear landmines, so this doesn't surprise me.
The battery may be near indestructible, but whatever is powered by it isn't necessarily. Feels like they could have gone with just about any fissile material with a sufficiently long half-life.
A emphasise on 'TINNY' amount of electricity.
I was looking at it about 2 months back you needed multiple thousands to run something like a RPI.
Ah, yes. Indestructible... except for being flammable. 🤣
@@Ice_Karma it's a diamond... how is it...
@@joshuaohuka7719 It's made of pure carbon. Carbon burns.
@@Ice_Karma Diamond carbon oxidizes. At the "burning" temperature they glow, but if there isn't a constant supply of a lot of oxygen, it's not going to sustain the burn to convert it to carbon dioxide and monoxide.
Nuclear thermoelectric batteries have been around for 50+ years. The Voyager probes being a prime example. Having a nuclear battery that is encased in a durable diamond is useful BUT that is the problem. No manufacturer would want to build something that could run (essentially) forever. Not profitable.
The question is, how expensive is the process to replicate?
It sounds like he inhaled helium for when he said "tiny" around 0:32