{"id":180611,"date":"2024-01-16T13:33:56","date_gmt":"2024-01-16T19:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/chinas-nuclear-battery-powers-your-smartphone-for-50-years-straight"},"modified":"2024-01-16T13:33:56","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T19:33:56","slug":"chinas-nuclear-battery-powers-your-smartphone-for-50-years-straight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/chinas-nuclear-battery-powers-your-smartphone-for-50-years-straight","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s nuclear battery powers your smartphone for 50 years straight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chinas-nuclear-battery-powers-your-smartphone-for-50-years-straight2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Betavolt wants to create batteries that will last a lifetime by 2025.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A Chinese startup called Betavolt has cooked up this itty-bitty nuclear battery \u2014 about the size of a little coin \u2014 which they claim can crank out electricity for 50 years straight, with no charging pit stops needed.<\/p>\n<p>As the company leaps from development to the pilot stage, they\u2019re gearing up for full-scale production and a grand entrance into the market pretty soon.<\/p>\n<p><b>How did they create it?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The Beijing-based company also claims that its nuclear <a href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/innovation\/swapery-the-worlds-first-auto-swappable-battery-system-for-smartphones\" title=\"battery\" rel=\"dofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">battery<\/a> is the world\u2019s first to successfully miniaturize atomic energy, fitting 63 nuclear isotopes into a module smaller than a coin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Betavolt wants to create batteries that will last a lifetime by 2025. A Chinese startup called Betavolt has cooked up this itty-bitty nuclear battery \u2014 about the size of a little coin \u2014 which they claim can crank out electricity for 50 years straight, with no charging pit stops needed. As the company leaps from [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512,873],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones","category-nuclear-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180611","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}