betavolt and potentially a new type of battery

[HomerJ]

This tiny radioactive battery can last 50 years without recharging — and it's coming in 2025

BetaVolt's BV100 is smaller than a coin and contains a radioactive isotope of nickel that decays into copper and supplies power to a device for up to 50 years. But it probably won't power your smartphone anytime soon, an expert suggests.

www.livescience.com

A tiny radioactive battery could keep your future phone running for 50 years

A glowing horizon for phones

www.techradar.com

Chinese-developed nuclear battery has a 50-year lifespan — Betavolt BV100 built with Nickel-63 isotope and diamond semiconductor material

The design uses China’s first diamond semiconductor material.

www.tomshardware.com

Betavolt unveils revolutionary coin-size battery with nickel-63 nuclear isotope and diamond semiconductors

The BV100 micro nuclear energy battery is said to provide 100 mW at 3V continuously without recharge or any maintenance for 50 years. Despite using the radioactive nickel-63 isotope, the battery can safely power even pacemakers inside the human body and is environment-friendly as well.

www.notebookcheck.net

You might not have to ever charge your phone again thanks to nuclear batteries

A company based in China is developing a nuclear battery that could be used in mobile devices and stay charged for 50 years.

www.androidauthority.com

 

[SpyderTracks]

I saw this and haven't read up on it, so don't know how far into actual development it is. But China do have a bit of a tendency to rather overstate their achievements.

That being said, they're leading the way in Fusion technology, certainly their investment in reactors, but there's very recently been a groundbreaking achievement by a US university to actually create sustained bursts over time whereas up until now it's only ever been one burst that's then been almost impossible to cool for a meaningful amount of time

US nuclear-fusion lab enters new era: achieving ‘ignition’ over and over

Researchers at the National Ignition Facility are consistently creating reactions that make more energy than they consume.

www.nature.com

But if this is further than simply a one off, and they've got an actual design in place that can be marketed at a reasonable cost while maintaining safety, it's certainly a great step.

But give them their dues, bringing the 80's betamax back into the naming convention is a bold step, bravo!

 

[TonyCarter]

If this is going to be like one of those flashlights/projectors that offer 1,000,000 'Chinese' lumens, when they're actually 100 ANSI lumens, then I'll stay away

 

[Scott]

In a strange way I'm thinking about Robin Williams on Golf with this one.

Describing how the game came to be by listing all the things that make it difficult, so much so when listed it sounds insane.

In this case, in my head, it's a funny and anecdotal list of why this is a very bad idea! Radiation and handheld devices doesn't have a good history.