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xeroid on October 2, 2007 - 2:14pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

As the man says ... Fuhgeddaboudit!

There is around 3.6kg of naturally occuring tritium in the world, spread evenly around the world!

Manmade tritium? ... around 30kg ...cost? ... ~ $200,000,000 per kilo!

See

http://www.theoildrum.com/node/2806

Xeroid.

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PartyGuy on October 2, 2007 - 10:41pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

It says that tritium is a BYPRODUCT, not a requirement for the battery.

The profile of the batteries can be quite small and thin, a porous silicon material is used to collect the hydrogen isotope tritium which is generated in the process. The reaction is non-thermal which means laptops and other small devices like mobile phones will run much cooler than with traditional lithium-ion power batteries. The reason the battery lasts so long is that neutron beta-decay into protons is the world's most concentrated source of electricity, truly demonstrating Einstein’s theory E=MC2.

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