California company NDB says its nano-diamond batteries will absolutely upend the energy equation, acting like tiny nuclear generators.
So what you get is a tiny miniature power generator in the shape of a battery that never needs charging - and that NDB says will be cost-competitive with, and sometimes significantly less expensive than - current lithium batteries.
At the small scale, these could include things like pacemaker batteries and other electronic implants, where their long lifespan will save the wearer from replacement surgeries.
In a consumer electronics application, NDB's Neel Naicker gives us an example of just how different these devices would be: "Think of it in an iPhone. With the same size battery, it would charge your battery from zero to full, five times an hour. Imagine that. Imagine a world where you wouldn't have to charge your battery at all for the day. Now imagine for the week, for the month How about for decades? That's what we're able to do with this technology."
The NDB battery offers an outstanding 24-hour energy proposition for off-grid living, and the NDB team is adamant that it wishes to devote a percentage of its time to providing it to needy remote communities as a charity service with the support of some of the company's business customers.
Such a long-life battery will fundamentally challenge the disposable ethos of many modern technologies, or lead to battery packs that consumers carry with them from phone to phone, car to car, laptop to laptop across decades.
Each battery is its own near-inexhaustible green energy source, quietly turning nuclear waste into useful energy.
https://newatlas.com/energy/nano-diamond-self-charging-batteries-ndb/
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