{"id":6867,"date":"2016-11-29T07:48:36","date_gmt":"2016-11-29T13:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=6867"},"modified":"2016-11-29T07:48:36","modified_gmt":"2016-11-29T13:48:36","slug":"from-carbon-to-diamond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/11\/29\/from-carbon-to-diamond\/","title":{"rendered":"From Carbon To Diamond"},"content":{"rendered":"

University of Bristol <\/b><\/i>scientists have achieved one of those commercial holy grails – converting waste into something useful<\/a>:<\/p>\n

New technology has been developed that uses nuclear waste to generate electricity in a nuclear-powered battery. A team of physicists and chemists from the University of Bristol have grown a man-made diamond that, when placed in a radioactive field, is able to generate a small electrical current.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The development could solve some of the problems of nuclear waste, clean electricity generation and battery life.<\/p>\n

This innovative method for radioactive energy was presented at the Cabot Institute\u2019s sold-out annual lecture – \u2018Ideas to change the world<\/a>\u2019- on Friday, 25 November.<\/p>\n

Unlike the majority of electricity-generation technologies, which use energy to move a magnet through a coil of wire to generate a current, the man-made diamond is able to produce a charge simply by being placed in close proximity to a radioactive source.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Uses?<\/p>\n

\u201cWe envision these batteries to be used in situations where it is not feasible to charge or replace conventional batteries. Obvious applications would be in low-power electrical devices where long life of the energy source is needed, such as pacemakers, satellites, high-altitude drones or even spacecraft.<\/p>\n

There are so many possible uses that we\u2019re asking the public to come up with suggestions of how they would utilise this technology by using #diamondbattery.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Gotta love this one.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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University of Bristol scientists have achieved one of those commercial holy grails – converting waste into something useful: New technology has been developed that uses nuclear waste to generate electricity in a nuclear-powered battery. A team of physicists and chemists from the University of Bristol have grown a man-made diamond \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6868,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6867\/revisions\/6868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}