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by achow 1902 days ago
Objective analysis..

https://medium.com/0xmachina/the-nano-diamond-battery-ndb-to...

It is just a concept now, no prototypes. Announcement could be for creating noise before fund raising

2 comments

There are nuclear batteries available, but the amount of power they put out is in the microwatts. Not exactly a useful amount of power for a modern phone. Good enough for some kinds of sensors, though.
Yeah, while the basic concept obviously would work I can't see the energy density they are claiming. C-14 has a long half life, the decay rate is going to be low.