Chinese companies have successfully developed small civilian atomic energy batteries, which can generate electricity for more than 50 years!
On the first day of CES in the United States, China announced that technology would blow up the streets
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On the first day of CES in the United States, when Musk was still dreaming of atomic batteries, China's intelligent manufacturing had already cut off his dream!
According to the report of Science and Technology Daily, Beijing Betavolt New Energy Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Betavolt) announced on January 8 that it had successfully developed a miniature atomic energy battery, and successfully achieved low cost and modularization, the first battery name is BV100, which is the world's first nuclear battery that is about to be mass-produced, and this small battery has subversive significance!
It can meet the power supply in multiple scenarios such as aerospace, AI equipment, medical devices, MEMS systems, advanced sensors, small drones, and microrobots. This new energy innovation will help China take the lead in the new round of AI technology revolution.
What is an atomic battery?
In fact, it is a nuclear battery, which is composed of excellent semiconductor materials such as lead telluride, germanium-silicon alloy and selenium compounds. Its working principle is very simple, the isotope decay process will produce heat, and then absorbed and converted into electrical energy through the semiconductor converter, atomic decay is a very long process, so the nuclear battery can generate electricity continuously, unlike thermal power will produce pollution, and it is not unstable like hydropower and solar energy, so it is an excellent energy source for human beings.
In fact, the origin of nuclear battery technology is very early, as early as 1959, the United States invented the first nuclear battery, although the weight reached 1.8 kilograms, but the power generation efficiency is very low, 280 days only 11.6 kilowatt-hours of electricity, want to improve the power generation efficiency to increase the volume of the battery, and the manufacturing cost will also be greatly increased, so it can not be devolved to the civilian field, the early nuclear battery is generally used in the aerospace field.
In 1977, the United States put a nuclear battery on Voyager 1, and it is thanks to this nuclear battery that Voyager 1 can still send signals to the Earth today.
Betavolt's first mass-produced nuclear battery, the BV100
According to Zhang Wei, chairman and CEO of Beta Volt, the company's first nuclear battery is the BV100, with a power of 100 microwatts, a voltage of 3V, and a volume of 15 x 15 x 5 cubic millimeters, which is smaller than a coin. The nuclear battery generates 8.64 joules per minute and 3,153 joules per year, and several of these cells can be used in series and parallel.
Because betavolt is a completely different technology path, the company's scientific team has developed a unique single-crystal diamond semiconductor with a thickness of only 10 microns, placing a 2-micron thick nickel-63 sheet between two diamond semiconductor converters to convert the decay energy of the radioactive source into an electric current to form a separate unit. Modules consisting of dozens or hundreds of individual units that can be used in series and parallel, so battery products of different sizes and capacities can be manufactured.
To put it simply, in the past, nuclear batteries were called isotope temperature difference batteries, which were large in size, heavy in weight and high in cost, and were only suitable for the aerospace field. BV100 adopts diamond fourth-generation semiconductor technology and nickel 63 core decay, compared with isotope temperature difference batteries, it can achieve miniaturization, modularization, and most importantly, reduce the cost, and can be decentralized to the civilian field.
The BV100 will be mass-produced and marketed through the pilot stage, and will become the world's first mass-produced nuclear battery, and Betavolt plans to launch a 1-watt battery in 2025, and if the policy allows, the atomic battery can make a mobile phone never charge, and the drone can now only fly for 15 minutes.
In the future, nuclear battery technology will go further, and the era of nuclear-powered cars may also accelerate, a nuclear battery can be used for life, and it is truly a zero-cost car, with neither mileage anxiety nor charging anxiety.
Moreover, the nuclear battery is a physical battery, which is safer and more environmentally friendly than the lithium battery, can do acupuncture without fire, explosion, etc., the energy density is more than 10 times that of the lithium battery, and the power generation and discharge are not affected by the environment, and can also work between minus 60 degrees Celsius and 120 degrees Celsius.
So nuclear-powered cars are the real new energy vehicles, and if China can take the lead in the nuclear battery industry, then the automotive industry will also subvert the global automotive market, and now everything is possible.