On 2023-07-30, Willy Nilly <
willynilly@qwert.com> wrote:
Pursuant to Gordon's post about the fire hazard of lithium batteries,
there is actually an excellent battery technology which exists, has no
fire hazard, and doesn't need recharging for years regardless of how
much it's used. It hasn't been perfected into a finished product for
social, not technical, reasons. It is radioactive decaying pellets,
as are used to keep spacecraft going for decades.
Such things can be lead-enclosed and made in the size of a capacitor.
It would supply power for 10 years which is about the life-cycle of
scooters and iphones anyway. And for EVs which could go for decades,
it would be simple to replace the radioactive-decaying batteries every
10 years -- such a car battery would weigh no more than the ones we
use now -- except it would run the whole car, no petrol required!
To produce enough nuclear fuel to power these things, we'd need a
whole new generation of breeder-reactors built to service the electric
grid. Tear down all those rancid windmills because we have good clean
cheap reliable nuclear power. And the breeder-reactors would produce
enough nuclear fuel to power all our mobile vehicles and iphones, etc.
Fat city! Who's in on this? Tell them Willy said so.
There are many new batteries under development, have a google. I see it that lithium got of the mark first but others are about to give it a run for its money.
Not sure about the disposal/recycling of the nuclear batteries. They are
likely to end up being careless discarded.
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