New battery technology lasts 28,000 years

[Galdorf]

Imagine never having to charge your cell phone.

 

[GTP]

I dont think I'll keep my mobile phone for 28 thousand years..

 

[Sky-Knight]

It's not exactly new, but it is one of the more creative ways to deal with nuclear waste. If nothing else, converting all that junk into a huge battery bank somewhere would have some value, while solving a very long term problem.

 

[NviGate Systems]

There are older battles from the 70's I think that use radioactive liquid in a vial that are sandwiched between a solar cell as a sort of sealed battery. They don't generate much, maybe around 1-2 volts, but for scenarios where you need a battery to last a long time, for maybe a sensor or other low drain device, they work good. I think in one of EEVBlog's videos a few years back a viewer mailed one to him.

 

[Sky-Knight]

1-2 volts adds up quickly when you wire them up in series. Nuclear waste storage vaults aren't exactly small spaces...

So converting the storage vault into a giant battery seems like a great way to get some free power. Sure not cheap to build, but if the payoff is over 10,000 years... How can we go wrong?

 

[britechguy]

Sure not cheap to build, but if the payoff is over 10,000 years... How can we go wrong?

I'm not trying to be snarky here, but the ways anything that has myriad parts, some of which are metal, that all need to work together for that long has *lots* of ways it could go wrong.

That being said, if "going wrong" just means you have to do maintenance, and that maintenance is reasonably easily doable, it makes perfect sense to me.

It really does come down to whether the benefit does exceed the cost not only up front but over predicted service life of keeping the thing still serving.

 

[Sky-Knight]

If we can string together over 4000 of these things: https://www.batteryjunction.com/samsung-26j-button.html

To power a house without burning it down... I'm pretty sure we can handle turning nuclear waste into generators.

 

[Galdorf]

Well they created one of these diamond nuclear batteries and tested them on volcano sensors and it worked perfectly they have found a way to create them on large scale to power electric vehicles imagine what that would to to oil industry 28000 years without recharging.

 

[Sky-Knight]

Oil makes money off all sorts of things, not just fuels that we burn. Every polymer everywhere starts with petroleum.

 

[GTP]

The Human Race will be over and done in less that 1000 years either through war, famine, disease or a rock called "Game Over" that's hurtling through space on a collision course with the "Pale Blue Dot" .

Worrying whether my battery will be charged is meaningless.

 

[frase]

Thanks @Barcelona nothing like cheery Sunday news!

Comet in Question

 

[lan101]

The Human Race will be over and done in less that 1000 years either through war, famine, disease or a rock called "Game Over" that's hurtling through space on a collision course with the "Pale Blue Dot" .

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If the WEF has their way it'll be a lot sooner than that.

 

[GTP]

85 miles (150km) wide. That would be like hitting an orange with a canon ball.
Definitely game over.
An extinction level event that would unbalance the entire Solar System.
So even if we colonised the Moon, Mars, Titan or any other "somewhere close" it would still spell disaster.

 

[frase]

If the WEF has their way it'll be a lot sooner than that.

CCP more like it...

 

[Sky-Knight]

@Barcelona At present we lack the technology to sustain colonies elsewhere in this solarsystem without Earth anyway.