{"id":134261,"date":"2022-01-18T18:24:18","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T02:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/the-radioactive-diamond-battery-that-will-run-for-28000-years"},"modified":"2022-01-18T18:24:18","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T02:24:18","slug":"the-radioactive-diamond-battery-that-will-run-for-28000-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/the-radioactive-diamond-battery-that-will-run-for-28000-years","title":{"rendered":"The Radioactive Diamond Battery That Will Run for 28,000 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-radioactive-diamond-battery-that-will-run-for-28000-years2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2021 o.o<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>In less than two years, you might be able to buy a <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/technology\/gear\/g19863873\/best-cheap-watches\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/technology\/gear\/g19863873\/best-cheap-watches\/\">smartwatch <\/a>\u2014powered with a radioactive diamond battery\u2014that will outlive you and your progeny for generations.<\/p>\n<p>The potentially game-changing battery comes from the San Francisco\u2013based startup Nano Diamond Battery (<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/ndb.technology\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/ndb.technology\/\">NDB<\/a>), which lauds its namesake \u201chigh-power diamond-based alpha, beta, and neutron voltaic battery\u201d for its ability to give devices \u201clife-long and green energy.\u201d Imagine: Just one battery could power your insulin pump or pacemaker for your entire life (with loads of time to spare). Or it could provide the juice for a space rover, collecting Mars regolith samples for decades without any human assistance.<\/p>\n<p>Those are ambitious goals. So, could NDB\u2019s bold claims actually become reality?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2021 o.o In less than two years, you might be able to buy a smartwatch \u2014powered with a radioactive diamond battery\u2014that will outlive you and your progeny for generations. The potentially game-changing battery comes from the San Francisco\u2013based startup Nano Diamond Battery (NDB), which lauds its namesake \u201chigh-power diamond-based alpha, beta, and neutron voltaic [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}