Tuesday, July 10, 2007

Reinventing radioactive batteries

The increasingly high-tech US military always needs better batteries. So its research branch, the Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency (DARPA) based in Virginia, US, is funding a project to develop betavoltaic batteries – cells that generate current from radioactive materials that emit electrons (so-called beta emitters).
link to newscientist.com

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