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Radiation to electricity via Nanotechnology
Now US researchers say they have developed highly efficient materials that can convert the radiation, not heat, from nuclear materials and reactions into electricity.Tests ... [this will likely take years] ... of layered tiles of carbon nanotubes packed with gold and surrounded by lithium hydride are under way. Radioactive particles that slam into the gold push out a shower of high-energy electrons. They pass through carbon nanotubes and pass into the lithium hydride from where they move into electrodes, allowing current to flow. -a decent guess is that at least a half decade of physics and another half decade of engineering is needed to develop this - assuming it can be developed-- however, it sounds totally cool Posted by: mhw 2008-04-03 |
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