Goodbye to charging cars forever: the diamond battery that lasts 28,000 years and has an incalculable price tag

It could be the end of car charging with the arrival of a diamond battery that lasts 28,000 years and is priceless. The battery market has been giving a lot to talk about in recent times due to the demand. A striking case was that of the vegetable battery produced by forests. 

However, what we are going to tell you now surpasses anything we have ever seen.

The last few years have been marked by the development of batteries for electric vehicles.

A battery capable of lasting 28,000 years seems like science fiction (and, in reality, it is so). We’ll tell you what actually happened with this promising invention.

 The diamond battery we are talking about was going to be made from nuclear waste and promised to last 28,000 years. It is a proposal from the Californian start-up Nano Diamond Battery (NDB), which already had a prototype called “Diamond Nuclear Voltaic”.

In the case of electric vehicles, NBD’s nanobatteries ensure an autonomy of 90 years. The new NDB battery allegedly received its energy from recycled radioactive isotopes that come from nuclear waste, such as radioactive graphite.

Each unit would have a single crystalline diamond that absorbs the energy from the isotopes. Since they have a lifetime of several thousand years, their creators “guarantee” that they will continue to emit energy and the battery will never need to be recharged.

The thermal conduction efficiency of microscopic diamonds allgedly act to draw heat away from the radioactive isotopes as soon as electricity is produced. The polycrystalline diamond layer that acts as the battery cover contains radiation inside.

Its material is harder, up to 12 times stronger than stainless steel. As the Californian company explains, the part was “completely safe” for humans, because the radioactive diamond was wrapped in multiple coatings of “extremely durable” synthetic diamonds.

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