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    The world's first carbon-14 diamond has been produced with the potential to provide power for thousands of years - UK Atomic Energy Authority
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    The world’s first carbon-14 diamond has been produced with the potential to provide power for thousands of years – UK Atomic Energy Authority


    The world’s first carbon-14 diamond has been produced with the potential to provide power for thousands of years – UK Atomic Energy Authority

    https://www.gov.uk/government/news/diamonds-are-forever-world-first-carbon-14-diamond-battery-made

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    1. itsaride on

      Submission statement : Scientists and engineers from the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) and the University of Bristol have successfully created the world’s first carbon-14 diamond battery.

      The battery leverages the radioactive isotope, carbon-14, known for its use in radiocarbon dating, to produce a diamond battery.

      This development is the result, in part, of UKAEA’s work on fusion energy.

    4. Fake_William_Shatner on

      Finally, a battery I can accurately tell how long it has been sitting unused in my drawer.

    5. rob_burnley on

      this seems very promising! why are there only 138 votes and 10 comments 😀 I’m impressed anyway, go bristol uni!

    6. ThunderheadGilius on

      Haha bla bla bla.

      Utter nonsense misleading headline which won’t make a jot of difference to current energy hierarchies or our bills.

    7. bigattichouse on

      So, let’s think 1 watt, assuming 1 microwatt.. we need 1000 , resulting in roughly 50000 cubic mm to make a milliwatt. An AA battery is 8.1 cubic centimeters = 8100 cubic mm.

      A battery the size of 6 AA batterys that can output (whatever the voltage X amperage = 1 milliwatt) for 5000 years.

      1 liter = 1000000 cubic mL … so 20 of these battery packs = 20mW.

      50 liters would result in 1 watt of power continuously for 5000 years.

      For Americans, this is a little less than three 5 gallon buckets.

      Let’s run our house on 1000 Watts continuous:

      A 50,000 liter tank typically has dimensions around a diameter of 2.5 meters (around 8.2 feet) and a height of around 3.2 meters (around 10.5 feet)

      This could easily be in the ground outside or under your house.

      Yes please. Assuming it doesn’t irradiate the neighborhood.

      >The battery is the size of a conventional wrist watch battery at **10mm across and just 0.5mm thick**. “Diamond batteries offer a safe, sustainable way to provide continuous microwatt levels of power,” said Sarah Clark, director of tritium fuel cycle at UKAEA

      [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/12/03/scientists-invent-battery-never-dies-diamond-radioactive/](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/12/03/scientists-invent-battery-never-dies-diamond-radioactive/)