Scientists have created an almost eternal battery with a service life of up to 28,000 years

Hello dear guests and subscribers of my channel. Today I want to tell you about the development of Western colleagues, namely about the beta-galvanic battery, the service life of which can reach 28,000 years. So, let's begin.

Who created an almost eternal battery

The American startup NDB is engaged in the development and laboratory testing of the new battery. And, as representatives of this company reported, they successfully completed a set of laboratory tests at once for two prototypes of beta-galvanic batteries.

This type of battery works on the principle of converting beta radiation into electricity. Also, the company's engineers proudly declare that there are no similar analogues in the world and their new battery can power a variety of devices (phones, sensors, cars, airplanes, etc.) for 28 000 years.

What is the new battery

Prototypes of the "perpetual" battery have been tested at Livermore National Laboratory and the Cavendshi Laboratory at Cambridge University.

Employees from both laboratories confirmed that the efficiency of the tested samples was a record for the so-called "diamond batteries" created from synthetic diamonds.

For reference. "Diamond Battery" is the name of the prototype battery, which was proposed by the Cabot Institute at the University of Bristol on November 25, 2016.

At the same time, the prototype developed at the university is a beta-voltaic element in which carbon-14 is used in the form diamond-like carbon (DLC) as a radiation source and normal carbon DLC to form the required semiconductor junction and encapsulation of carbon-14.

How a new battery works

At its core, a "nuclear" battery is a radioactive core covered with a synthetic diamond.

In this case, the isotopes interact with the diamond as a result of the process of inelastic scattering. It is this process that is responsible for the transformation of radioactive radiation into electric current.

The half-life of radioactive elements can be tens of thousands of years, which is significantly longer than the service life of any human-made mechanism.

At the same time, the battery is absolutely safe for others, since this radiation does not pass outside, and the diamond sheath of the rod serves as an excellent guarantee of protection against mechanical damage.

Since the process of generating energy is continuous, the spent, but unused charge will accumulate in the so-called buffer capacity, for example, in a supercapacitor or the most common lithium-ion battery.

So early attempts to produce such developments showed an efficiency of no more than 15% in energy production, but prototypes from Nano Diamond Battery showed an efficiency of 40%.

Where will it be used and who will manufacture these batteries

The range of applications for such batteries is potentially huge. Imagine a smartphone that does not require charging in principle. But the project is still very far from a full-fledged commercial test. So we will not soon see "atomic" and almost eternal batteries on store shelves.

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