Good to see some UK based people doing some science content. I have a fusor and have been doing some activation experiments. As previously mentioned yes the Beta’s are practically weak from tritium. It is however pretty bad for you if ingested especially as tritinated water.
Thanks, I have a half build demo fusor in my shed that I want to revisit when I can upgrade to a decent vaccum pump. Yeah obtaining and drinking tritiated water is some real commitment to mess yourself up with Tritium.
You are amazing dude , I found this channel ... And stuff here is really impressive. Keep spreading knowledge... God bless you dear ... Waiting to see more of new stuff from you 🎉
Nice work! Could it be pepped up a bit with a few sources from ionisation smoke alarms? Or are your green tubes already a level beyond that? Nearly 40 years ago I was testing electronic circuits that had memory backed up by a lithium coin cell. Many of the memory chips had a current of about 0.2 microamps but some of them were as high as 2 or 3 microamps. (Some of those might of found their way into non-volatile memory expansion for my Sinclair Spectrum computer). What I'm getting at is that you might have been particularly unlucky with your little calculator and another "identical" one might need 10 times less current. That could make enough difference for it to work continuously rather than for a few seconds. Just hoping you can make some advances towards getting a car working with your power source!
Thanks for the info. The americium in smoke alarms is probably more active than my vials but it’s mainly alpha rather than beta from my tubes. I haven’t heard of an alpha- photovoltaic cell before but researchers have used harvested energy from alpha emitters directly by placing it on semiconductors (see 4.2.1 diamond Am-241 apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/AD1040902.pdf#page19) it looks like quite a delicate technical process but interesting.
@@Curiosity_lab The amount of Am241 in smoke detectors is a lot less active than the tritium in one of those vials. The amount of tritium in those vials has an activity above 1 gBq. Usually the activity of the Am241 in the smoke detectors is around 37kBq. Let us assume that we have 100% energy conversion efficiency to figure out what would be theoretically possible with the Am241. 37000 decays/second* 5.47845 MeV/decay= 202702.65 MeV/second 202702.65 MeV/second = 3.2477E-8 Joule = 0.032477 microwatt You can take a transistor and cut open the case or take a photodiode like the BPX 61 and break open the case so that the alpha radiation can directly hit the pn junction. The problem is that the alpha radiation will eventually degrade and destroy it. A few years ago I saw a video of someone trying exactly that idea and it worked for a few seconds. Sadly I can't find the video anymore. Perhaps it was deleted. One way how you could certainly increase the power output of your current setup is by filling a closed case with tritium gas in which you would then place an open transistor or photodiode to build a real betavoltaic battery that would have a higher efficiency. The problem is that most people don't have the equipment to fill the tritium of those vials into a diy device because of the lighter than air problem. One last idea that I have is if you want to build an alphavoltaic cell with a long lifetime then you should take a look at Henry Moseley's version of a battery powered with radium. A few years ago(could be more than just a few years) I saw a post on a German forum of some dude breaking open Sources from United Nuclear and trying to build some sort of nuclear battery. One of the main things that I remember is that the guy basically managed to cover his entire apartment floor with polonium 210, strontium 90 and some other isotopes and every post basically called him an idiot.
I wouldn’t hold it for a long period of time but na super low level of radiation and beta radiation isn’t very penetrating. These tritium vials are used as keychains and zips in camp tents. Only way it could be harmful is if you broke the vial and breathed in the gas.
Hello sir. I'm trying to make a simple nuclear battery using Sr-90. It'll be like a betavoltaic battery, but sadly I don't have phosphorous nor do I have any solar panels at the moment. And if I wanted that, I could also just put the solar panels outside. Do you perchance have any idea how I could make such thing? I'm new at betavoltaic, and I own a Sr-90 sample from my old soviet union Dosimeter DR-M3. Greetings
Interesting, think you might have to experiment with some phosphor powders to get one that works. Looks like zinc sulfate doped with silver (ZnS:Ag) is easy enough to get ans should phoshores with beta
@@Curiosity_lab Oh to make a light then use a photovoltaic cells? Well it's nice, but I thought of collecting the beta particles straight off, and then turning them into power without any light. My idea would be to use some transistor or diode or anything like that, which has a P N junction point and is made for collecting electrons and turning them into electricity
Oh right yeah, in my latest video about Martian concrete I used a PIN photodiode to detect alpha decay, might work for beta too. I wasn’t trying to generate power though so I was giving it a reverse bias voltage to widen the band gap so it could detect higher energy particles than Uv light
"... to make it look cooler"
You should put it into a box mark the date and bury it somewhere for future generations of yours to dig out and be proud of your invention 👏 🥰
You forgot it was a screw driver after about 30 seconds, didn’t you? 😁
I did…
I didn't notice it was a screwdriver until 1:30 😅
Good to see some UK based people doing some science content. I have a fusor and have been doing some activation experiments.
As previously mentioned yes the Beta’s are practically weak from tritium. It is however pretty bad for you if ingested especially as tritinated water.
Thanks, I have a half build demo fusor in my shed that I want to revisit when I can upgrade to a decent vaccum pump. Yeah obtaining and drinking tritiated water is some real commitment to mess yourself up with Tritium.
@@Curiosity_lab great, be good to see a build of that. There are a few shorts of the fusor on my channel as well as some activations of silver.
The most geekiest calculator on the planet. Luv it!
Up Next - Tritium powered Airtag
You are amazing dude , I found this channel ... And stuff here is really impressive. Keep spreading knowledge... God bless you dear ... Waiting to see more of new stuff from you 🎉
The most amazing thing is the screwdriver you are talking into
Unless they're Duracell batteries then they will be corroded in the package that you bought this year. True story.
Best fun project I've seen in a while.
I'm guessing trying to get panels that have efficiend absorption in the emission spectrum of the phosphorus is important for efficiency.
Awesome video
Thanks!
Nice work!
Could it be pepped up a bit with a few sources from ionisation smoke alarms? Or are your green tubes already a level beyond that?
Nearly 40 years ago I was testing electronic circuits that had memory backed up by a lithium coin cell. Many of the memory chips had a current of about 0.2 microamps but some of them were as high as 2 or 3 microamps. (Some of those might of found their way into non-volatile memory expansion for my Sinclair Spectrum computer). What I'm getting at is that you might have been particularly unlucky with your little calculator and another "identical" one might need 10 times less current. That could make enough difference for it to work continuously rather than for a few seconds.
Just hoping you can make some advances towards getting a car working with your power source!
Thanks for the info. The americium in smoke alarms is probably more active than my vials but it’s mainly alpha rather than beta from my tubes. I haven’t heard of an alpha- photovoltaic cell before but researchers have used harvested energy from alpha emitters directly by placing it on semiconductors (see 4.2.1 diamond Am-241 apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/AD1040902.pdf#page19) it looks like quite a delicate technical process but interesting.
@@Curiosity_lab The amount of Am241 in smoke detectors is a lot less active than the tritium in one of those vials.
The amount of tritium in those vials has an activity above 1 gBq.
Usually the activity of the Am241 in the smoke detectors is around 37kBq.
Let us assume that we have 100% energy conversion efficiency to figure out what would be theoretically possible with the Am241.
37000 decays/second* 5.47845 MeV/decay= 202702.65 MeV/second
202702.65 MeV/second = 3.2477E-8 Joule = 0.032477 microwatt
You can take a transistor and cut open the case or take a photodiode like the BPX 61 and break open the case so that the alpha radiation can directly hit the pn junction.
The problem is that the alpha radiation will eventually degrade and destroy it.
A few years ago I saw a video of someone trying exactly that idea and it worked for a few seconds.
Sadly I can't find the video anymore. Perhaps it was deleted.
One way how you could certainly increase the power output of your current setup is by filling a closed case with tritium gas in which you would then place an open transistor or photodiode to build a real betavoltaic battery that would have a higher efficiency.
The problem is that most people don't have the equipment to fill the tritium of those vials into a diy device because of the lighter than air problem.
One last idea that I have is if you want to build an alphavoltaic cell with a long lifetime then you should take a look at Henry Moseley's version of a battery powered with radium.
A few years ago(could be more than just a few years) I saw a post on a German forum of some dude breaking open Sources from United Nuclear and trying to build some sort of nuclear battery.
One of the main things that I remember is that the guy basically managed to cover his entire apartment floor with polonium 210, strontium 90 and some other isotopes and every post basically called him an idiot.
cool, does it not harm if we interact with it with bare hands as its radioactive
I wouldn’t hold it for a long period of time but na super low level of radiation and beta radiation isn’t very penetrating. These tritium vials are used as keychains and zips in camp tents. Only way it could be harmful is if you broke the vial and breathed in the gas.
@@Curiosity_lab thanks for the reply bro, I don't know how TH-cam algorithm works but you deserve way more subs, hope your videos get viral soon.
@@kamalmehta4715 Thanks! Yeah not sure I know how it works either XD Things are picking up though, just gotta keep making and improving.
have you seen the new casio scientific calculators? those are VERY efficient and actually useful.
damn if only we could harvest the power of light
Brilliant way to get people to comment. Screw driver prop mic... lolol
what would be col, if you could dope the solar cells p type doping which is phosphorus with some of that tritium, so wouldn't that work way better.
Great work!
Are we sure those are amorphous cells? They look polycrystalline to me!
Vert cool!
5:45 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
"bat tree"
or BAT er ree ??
Fission
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Hello sir.
I'm trying to make a simple nuclear battery using Sr-90. It'll be like a betavoltaic battery, but sadly I don't have phosphorous nor do I have any solar panels at the moment. And if I wanted that, I could also just put the solar panels outside. Do you perchance have any idea how I could make such thing? I'm new at betavoltaic, and I own a Sr-90 sample from my old soviet union Dosimeter DR-M3.
Greetings
Interesting, think you might have to experiment with some phosphor powders to get one that works. Looks like zinc sulfate doped with silver (ZnS:Ag) is easy enough to get ans should phoshores with beta
@@Curiosity_lab Oh to make a light then use a photovoltaic cells? Well it's nice, but I thought of collecting the beta particles straight off, and then turning them into power without any light. My idea would be to use some transistor or diode or anything like that, which has a P N junction point and is made for collecting electrons and turning them into electricity
Oh right yeah, in my latest video about Martian concrete I used a PIN photodiode to detect alpha decay, might work for beta too. I wasn’t trying to generate power though so I was giving it a reverse bias voltage to widen the band gap so it could detect higher energy particles than Uv light
@@Curiosity_lab Interesting, I'll check it out!