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Straight from the Future! Diamond BATTERIES made of NUCLEAR WASTE can provide electric power for THOUSANDS of years. | |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 70427712  United States04/06/2018 10:00 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Straight from the Future! Diamond BATTERIES made of NUCLEAR WASTE can provide electric power for THOUSANDS of years. Until that fateful day when you realize you left your device in the car and your batteries froze and ruptured spewing nuclear waste all over your Prius. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 75901286 the nuclear waste is not in liquid form. It is upcycled! They take the graphite core out of a nuclear reactor, and then subject it to very high temperatures. This results in sublimation, so the graphite core literally evaporates into a gas. This gas is subjected to super high temperatures and pressure, which causes it to compress into a diamond! A very, very electric diamond! Sounds like the core of the Earth, only in miniature and on the surface, and useful. |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 35799703 United States04/06/2018 10:02 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Straight from the Future! Diamond BATTERIES made of NUCLEAR WASTE can provide electric power for THOUSANDS of years. what are the downsides to slapping a nuclear waste diamond into a device that is going to be inserted into a medical device and into a person, or into a cell phone which people hold next to the head? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 75772790 "it's not the duration of Life, it's the quality of Life that counts." . |
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 User ID: 71668768 United States04/06/2018 10:02 AM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Straight from the Future! Diamond BATTERIES made of NUCLEAR WASTE can provide electric power for THOUSANDS of years. what are the downsides to slapping a nuclear waste diamond into a device that is going to be inserted into a medical device and into a person, or into a cell phone which people hold next to the head? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 75772790 I suppose a crazy person could pull the diamond battery out and crush it with a hammer. |
| unblackened sentences User ID: 76376373 United States04/06/2018 10:03 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Straight from the Future! Diamond BATTERIES made of NUCLEAR WASTE can provide electric power for THOUSANDS of years. I remember that! Holy cow lol enterprise crystals ? the klingons will also want that for spaceflight........ leave a pin hole in the covered diamond for the laser to begin the heat transfer process for self charging.... Quoting: unblackened sentences 76376373 you're absolutely right! |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 74062706 United States04/06/2018 10:06 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Straight from the Future! Diamond BATTERIES made of NUCLEAR WASTE can provide electric power for THOUSANDS of years. |
| I NEED DIAMOND BATTERIES User ID: 69609458  Switzerland04/06/2018 10:06 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Straight from the Future! Diamond BATTERIES made of NUCLEAR WASTE can provide electric power for THOUSANDS of years. Article is two years old. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 69461972 Nothing will change. Big Oil & Gas kill every new discovery that may change our reliance on fossil fuels. so these diamond batteries are getting ready to market right??? i should see them at my local wal-mart next week right??? they had fucking 2 years to develop it no??? i need to get rid of my leaky AA alkaline batteries FFS!!! HELP!@### |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 76406713 United States04/06/2018 10:07 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Straight from the Future! Diamond BATTERIES made of NUCLEAR WASTE can provide electric power for THOUSANDS of years. Until that fateful day when you realize you left your device in the car and your batteries froze and ruptured spewing nuclear waste all over your Prius. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 75901286 From driver manual: If for any reason while driving you feel ubnormal or show signs of decomposition park your car in unpopulated area , call your family to say good bye. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 73462438  Italy04/06/2018 10:11 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Straight from the Future! Diamond BATTERIES made of NUCLEAR WASTE can provide electric power for THOUSANDS of years. obviously, I do have to remind you that there's a military "attaché" in any patent office and they seize ( steal ) all good invention from us, and then "realease" them during war time (to likk us) making the remaining idiots thing that war speeds up technological progress ... |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 35799703 United States04/06/2018 10:34 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Straight from the Future! Diamond BATTERIES made of NUCLEAR WASTE can provide electric power for THOUSANDS of years. Wait, doesn't a nuclear bomb go off from putting pressure on it from all sides? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 75539787 This may be a mini nuke if tried. LOL Yeah if you have a "subcritical mass "and compress (overcoming nuclear forces)it to achieve a "critical mass". This is not even close.... it's got all that Energy squished into it and ready to blow.  |
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| darth User ID: 76366194 United States04/06/2018 10:49 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Straight from the Future! Diamond BATTERIES made of NUCLEAR WASTE can provide electric power for THOUSANDS of years. When I was an engineer at Rockwell, one of our scientists created ceramic pellets using nuclear waste. The waste materials were locked up as constituents of the ceramic and could not be leached out by water. Quoting: darth 70183558 A barrel of those pellets could heat water to boiling for thousands of years. Nice energy source. As it turns out, the anti-nuke crowd is NOT interested in actual solutions except the option of abandoning nuke power forever. I once met a guy from the Clamshell Alliance, a prominent anti-nuke group. I asked him about using fusion power plants. He said, "Our position is that any fusion power plant has to be at least 93 million miles away from inhabited areas, i.e., the sun". He looked smug at this bit of humor. If the greens were serious about cutting carbon emissions, they would be all for fusion power as well as thorium powered LFTRs. BTW, LFTRs can burn up rad waste and obtain the energy. wow. I just need ONE of those barrels! Very very interesting. Your comment made me realize I have a lot of studying to do. The approach is simple: Figure out which elements are radioactive isotopes in your waste stream. Then, figure out which ceramic compounds use those elements. Mix, bake the pellets in a kiln, and voila! Then, you can leach out any elements that did not combine into the ceramic matrix. As an engineer, I always value the elegant, simple solution. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 76376373 United States04/06/2018 10:58 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Straight from the Future! Diamond BATTERIES made of NUCLEAR WASTE can provide electric power for THOUSANDS of years. When I was an engineer at Rockwell, one of our scientists created ceramic pellets using nuclear waste. The waste materials were locked up as constituents of the ceramic and could not be leached out by water. Quoting: darth 70183558 A barrel of those pellets could heat water to boiling for thousands of years. Nice energy source. As it turns out, the anti-nuke crowd is NOT interested in actual solutions except the option of abandoning nuke power forever. I once met a guy from the Clamshell Alliance, a prominent anti-nuke group. I asked him about using fusion power plants. He said, "Our position is that any fusion power plant has to be at least 93 million miles away from inhabited areas, i.e., the sun". He looked smug at this bit of humor. If the greens were serious about cutting carbon emissions, they would be all for fusion power as well as thorium powered LFTRs. BTW, LFTRs can burn up rad waste and obtain the energy. wow. I just need ONE of those barrels! Very very interesting. Your comment made me realize I have a lot of studying to do. The approach is simple: Figure out which elements are radioactive isotopes in your waste stream. Then, figure out which ceramic compounds use those elements. Mix, bake the pellets in a kiln, and voila! Then, you can leach out any elements that did not combine into the ceramic matrix. As an engineer, I always value the elegant, simple solution. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 72268040 United States04/06/2018 10:59 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Straight from the Future! Diamond BATTERIES made of NUCLEAR WASTE can provide electric power for THOUSANDS of years. 55 Cancri e Astronomical observation Image result for diamond exoplanet 55 Cancri e, is an exoplanet in the orbit of its Sun-like host star 55 Cancri A. The mass of the exoplanet is about 8.63 Earth masses and its diameter is about twice that of the Earth, thus classifying ... Wikipedia Distance to Earth: 40 light years Radius: 7,917.5 mi Discovered: August 30, 2004 Gravity: 20.99 m/s² Orbital period: 18 hours Discoverers: Fritz Benedict, William D. Cochran, Michael Endl, Barbara McArthur |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 932041 United States04/06/2018 11:01 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Straight from the Future! Diamond BATTERIES made of NUCLEAR WASTE can provide electric power for THOUSANDS of years. Years ago, I read something about an ancient human race far more advanced than us using a large diamond or crystal that powered all of their technology, including space craft. Dang, I am going to have to see if I can find that now. This also makes me wonder more about those crystal skulls that have been unearthed in different locations around the globe. Fascinating stuff. |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 30194358 United States04/06/2018 11:37 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Straight from the Future! Diamond BATTERIES made of NUCLEAR WASTE can provide electric power for THOUSANDS of years. Thanks OP very interesting video. I was just wondering how much energy it took to put the radioactive waste into the diamond form versus how much energy you can extract. Also, I think what they should do is think about creating shells of these diamonds to increase the amount of power they can get out. So like maybe 1,000 diamonds each outer layer a little larger and slightly skewed from the last to direct and increase power output. |
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User ID: 76393531 United States04/06/2018 11:51 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Straight from the Future! Diamond BATTERIES made of NUCLEAR WASTE can provide electric power for THOUSANDS of years. Remember those black balls in Futurama that powered the green spacecraft they always used? Quoting: Layers of Reality It seems scientists have actually found a way to make that a reality, but with clear, lab made diamonds that are made with upcycled radioactive waste! [link to futurism.com (secure)] Applications include powering space craft with this 'clean' energy source, medical devices and even satellites.  “In finding balance between lies and trust there will never be a better source than to speak your truth or make your peace some other way.” ~Sully Erna Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment. For even the very wise cannot see all ends. -Gandalph "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." - William Shakespeare |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 75006340 United States04/06/2018 11:51 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Straight from the Future! Diamond BATTERIES made of NUCLEAR WASTE can provide electric power for THOUSANDS of years. When I was an engineer at Rockwell, one of our scientists created ceramic pellets using nuclear waste. The waste materials were locked up as constituents of the ceramic and could not be leached out by water. Quoting: darth 70183558 A barrel of those pellets could heat water to boiling for thousands of years. Nice energy source. As it turns out, the anti-nuke crowd is NOT interested in actual solutions except the option of abandoning nuke power forever. I once met a guy from the Clamshell Alliance, a prominent anti-nuke group. I asked him about using fusion power plants. He said, "Our position is that any fusion power plant has to be at least 93 million miles away from inhabited areas, i.e., the sun". He looked smug at this bit of humor. If the greens were serious about cutting carbon emissions, they would be all for fusion power as well as thorium powered LFTRs. BTW, LFTRs can burn up rad waste and obtain the energy. But then the problem would be what materials can you use to contain the boiling water,long-term, which would be cost effective for private use. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 74783164 United States04/06/2018 12:29 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Straight from the Future! Diamond BATTERIES made of NUCLEAR WASTE can provide electric power for THOUSANDS of years. my knowledge sourcing doesn't keep a bibliography. . Total amateur here but it stands to reason that a small star that can't make much of anything heavier than carbon when it "dies" wouldn't be able to achieve black hole status but would still collapse on itself, creating an enormous ball of highly compressed carbon aka diamond. |
