The Forever battery (practically speaking)

[thx1138]

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/green-tech/a35970222/radioactive-diamond-battery-will-run-for-28000-years/
Of course it will take a lot of them to power a Tesla automobile.

[Floor]

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1. People will have another trending piece of junk to tweet about.

2. Five years from now we can all have a nice collection of obsolete although still producing
electricity, radio active batteries.

3. Best of all, this is a neat way to shuffle around the disposal of some radio active waste.

Charge the nuclear industry (read tax payers)  for the disposal, then turn around and sell
it to the general population.

                                    Real no brainer here, real no brainer.

Leaking
and / or
the contacts corroded or worn away
and / or
improperly disposed of
and / or
no longer any need for such a style of battery

In 1 year, 5 years, 10 years, 20 years, 50 years, 100 years, 500 years,
1.000 years, 10,000 years, thousands of years later
                            they are still a radioactive hazard.

                                       28,000 years

                                          NO, tihs is
                                 permanently impractical

[thx1138]

It sounds like you are a strong proponent of the "linear no threshold" (LNT) philosophy of nuclear power usage that was developed in the early 1950's and has not been modified since. So I guess you don't fly in airplanes, get dental or surgical x-rays, and live and sleep underground.

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It sounds like you are a strong proponent of the "linear no threshold" (LNT) philosophy of nuclear power usage that was developed in the early 1950's and has not been modified since. So I guess you don't fly in airplanes, get dental or surgical x-rays, and live and sleep underground.
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@ thx1138

You sound like a pro nuclear industry kind of guy.  Sales man ?

Its not that I live underground or that sort of thing. In fact for a large portion of
my life, I have been fortunate enough to live outdoors.

Working professionally as a climber / arborist for more than 36 years,
wrestling logs while 20 feet or more, off the deck sometimes.
Leading people in out door activities.   i.e. ...camping out, wilderness guiding, rock climbing
instructing that sort of thing.  Wanna wrestle ?

But the idea of hunting or fishing in and near the back waters of Chernobyl has
never held much appeal for me.  Neither has snorkel fishing off the coast of Fukushima.

As I previously stated, I don't particularly care for your idea of nuclear waste disposal
via distribution and dilution. I think of it as abhorrent behavior to engage in such a thing.

Wanna go fishing ?  I know a couple of nice spots here in the U.S..  There might be
some uranium mining tailings upstream, but hey, just don't drink the water.

[sm0ky2]

If we're going to do THAT.....
Why not just salvage Americum from old smoke detectors