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Abandoned Discussion on Diamond Batteries
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Name of Origin Country: The Nindaro Technocracy
Name of Technology/Object: Diamond Battery

Supporting Real Life References:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/...5f121a0449
https://phys.org/news/2016-11-diamond-ag...eries.html
http://bigthink.com/philip-perry/scienti...s-of-years


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Its long life, similar to other Betavoltaic devices suits it to applications similar to those of RTGs, supplying very little power for thousands of years without charging or replacing conventional batteries. Its power density will be far lower than that of conventional chemical batteries, restricting its use to extremely low-power electrical devices.

It will possess long life because it will run on radioactivity which takes an enormous amount of time to decay. The half life of C-14 is 5,730 years, so it will take that long to lose 50% of its power.
It will ease the disposal of waste graphite blocks (a small part of the world's radioactive waste) by extracting much of the block's radiocarbon and putting it in various electronic devices.
Betavoltaic batteries wouldn't require any coils, moving parts, etc., hence will be more durable than conventional batteries.
Being made of diamond (one of the hardest materials on earth) it will be more rugged than conventional batteries.

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15 Joules per day is mighty little. The two articles I read ( Fuck Forbes trying to get me to turn off my adblocker. >Sad ) didn't say /how/ to gets electricity from the battery, but I guess if science says it does, it does. However, the articles do say the "gemstones" are radioactive, but that this radiation is "short-ranged" and can be blocked by any "solid material". Part of the article suggests that the diamond itself would contain the radiation, but isn't the diamond itself the radioactive part? Or do they put a radioactive diamond in another diamond?
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I have to question how large the power gems would be and how much it costs to make them. How large is a battery made with 1 gram of C-14? Does the effect "stack" meaning will you get 30 joules with 2 grams, 45 with 3, etc etc....
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