In modern industry, batteries are a very critical component. Whether it is a mobile phone or a new energy vehicle, batteries are one of the most core components.
However, the current batteries are basically ternary lithium batteries or lithium iron phosphate batteries. The capacity of these batteries themselves is limited and the corresponding battery life is also limited.
According to the existing battery technology, if a smartphone is used frequently, it can last about one day at most, while the range of new energy vehicles is mostly within 800 kilometers. Many people have mileage anxiety after purchasing new energy vehicles.
In order to solve the battery life problem, humans have been trying every means to overcome battery technology in the past few decades. If anyone can solve the battery life problem in the future, he may become the richest man in the world.
And judging from the current research progress of battery technology in various countries, many battery technologies have begun to achieve breakthroughs, and some scientists have even developed some super batteries.
As early as 2016, Ukrainian scientist Kiselev claimed that he had developed a battery with ultra-long battery life.
This battery is a matchbox-sized device. In 2016, the device had been powered for 1 year and 4 months, and was not charged during this period. Theoretically, the battery device can continue to be powered for 11 years, which is equivalent to a maximum of 12 years of charging.
So what is this kind of battery? Why can it last for so long?
This super battery is also called tritium battery . It mainly uses the key attribute of tritium - the ability to emit electrons to generate electricity.
tritium is one of the hydrogen isotopes . It is one of the main raw materials for nuclear fusion . It is radioactive. It contains two neutrons and a proton. Its atom is unstable and can decay into helium with a mass of three. In addition, a large amount of electrons will be released during decay . Tritium batteries use this characteristic to power some devices.
In fact, the tritium battery was not the first invention of this scientist in Ukraine. As early as 2012, the City Labs Laboratory in Florida, USA successfully developed the first tritium battery in humans. This is an solar cell covered with a tritium coating. However, the battery had a relatively low range at that time.
, and Ukrainian scientist Kiselev chose a reinforced electrical chemical battery, whose energy efficiency is 1,000 times that of solar tritium batteries. In theory, if the battery is not powered externally, it can last up to 12 years, and it may even reach 20 years. The most important thing about
is that although this is a nuclear energy battery, its nuclear radiation is very small. tritium is an isotope of hydrogen, and its radiation is very small. When designing this battery, a layer of radiation-proof raw material can be applied to its surface, so it has almost no impact on the human body.
In addition, compared with traditional batteries, tritium batteries have a stronger temperature tolerance, with a bearing range of about minus 50 degrees Celsius to above 00 150 degrees Celsius, and its compressive and shock resistance is also very good. Combined with
, the tritium battery has very good performance in all aspects, and is a very ideal battery.
If this battery can be used in cars or mobile phones, it will bring about a huge change in the industry.
Just imagine, if this tritium battery is applied to a car, it can take 12 years to charge it once, which is so wonderful.
At that time, you don’t have to worry about charging or range issues. You can go wherever you want. Moreover, if the car is scrapped, the battery may still have electricity.
But when it comes to this, many netizens may have questions. Since tritium batteries are so powerful, why aren’t they widely used? Why are no companies producing such batteries?
Although tritium battery has strong battery life, its disadvantages are also very obvious. There are two main disadvantages.
First, the power is too small
Although the tritium battery lasts for a long time, the power is very small. Judging from the experimental data, the current voltage and voltage of the tritium battery in is only 2.4V, the current is only 50~350 nanoamps, and the maximum power is only 840 nanowatts (1 nanowatt is equal to one billionth of a watt).
Currently, the power of new energy vehicles reaches tens of kilowatts or even hundreds of kilowatts. We calculate based on 80 kilowatts. means that if you want to install a tritium battery on a car, you need at least 96 billion matchbox battery devices , and the battery alone is much larger than a car.
So it is obviously unrealistic to install this battery on a car in the short term.
Second, the price is too expensive. The main raw material of
tritium battery is tritium, and there are relatively few tritium elements on the earth. The tritium reserves on the surface of are only about 3.5 kilograms of , and it is difficult to mine. Currently, tritium is artificially synthesized, so the cost is very high. The price of one gram of tritium on the market is about 30,000 US dollars.
If you use tritium batteries in cars and want to achieve the purpose of commercial applications, the cost of alone may reach hundreds of millions of US dollars . This is not an ordinary high, but unimaginable.
also believes that the cost of tritium batteries is very high, which determines that it cannot be widely used on some electronic devices, and it is even more impossible to use on cars, and can only be used on some components with very small power.
Of course, with the continuous advancement of nuclear fusion technology, we do not rule out that tritium batteries may indeed be used in cars one day in the future.
