Much depends upon the terminal voltage that you must convert into a useful value. My suspicion is that the open circuited voltage is very high, making it difficult to use in simple applications. Dave
-----Original Message----- From: Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> To: vortex-l <[email protected]> Sent: Tue, Nov 29, 2016 10:37 am Subject: Re: [Vo]:Article: Diamonds turn nuclear waste into nuclear batteries <[email protected]> wrote: The maximum power output of such a battery would be about 4 mW / gm of C14. (That's milli-watt, not Megawatt, which means you would be looking at a very low acceleration rate. A hearing aid battery produces less than 1 mW. A pacemaker produces about 10 mW. So ~4 mW power levels would be useful. You could use 3 g of diamonds in a pacemaker. - Jed
