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Technology that is possibly . . . well, interesting.
Diamond Nuclear Voltaic (DNV): NDB is one of the earliest adopters and developers of this technology backed up by recent publications. Typically, DNV as a device is a combination of a semiconductor, metal and ceramic which has two contact surfaces to facilitate charge collection. Several single units are attached together to create a stack arrangement, which is fabricated to create a positive and negative contact surface similar to a common battery system. Every layer of the DNV stack consists of a high energy output source. This kind of arrangement improves the overall efficiency of the system and provides a multi layer safety shield for the product.
Rapid conversion from radiation to electricity: All radioisotopes are known to produce high amounts of heat. The strategic placement of the source between the DNV units facilitates inelastic scattering originated due to the presence of single crystalline diamond (SCD) in the DNV unit. This design prevents self-absorption of heat by the radioisotope and enables rapid conversion to usable electricity.
Thin film structure: The thin-film profile exhibited by NDB allows radiation absorption in the single crystalline diamond with minimal self adsorption. Due to its flexible design structure, this technology can take any shape and form in accordance to the application. This makes NDBâs battery system market friendly.
Nuclear recycle process: Utilization of radioactive waste as otherwise is a subject not many have looked into. At NDB, we aim to reuse the nuclear fuel by reprocessing and recycling to enable sustainability and promote a clean energy source in a safe and secure environment.
Canât wait to get a pacemaker run by one of these. 
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Oh geez, a car powered by one of these would make a Pinto look like a sparkler!
Found On Road Detonated?
Freaked-Out Radioactive Dud?
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Not so much an explosion hazard as in spreading radioactive material everywhere in an accident, even if each bit was individually contained. Diamonds are metastable and combustible. Canât you burn one with a magnifying glass in the sun? (Donât try this at home, unless you really hate your fiancĂ©.)
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Oh, so it would be more like the car in âRepo Manâ?
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For this video, Iâll be making the worldâs first real diamond water.
To do this, Iâll be burning diamonds, which are nearly pure carbon (and definitely not âforeverâ), to make diamond CO2 gas and then using that CO2 to make extremely expensive carbonate water.
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That is just fabulous. I guess he spent all his money on the diamonds and couldnât afford better bottled water.
I wonder if you have to add minerals of various sorts to make it taste correctly.
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Diamond dust is diamond. Cheap rocks or dust are going to have impurities, like any industrially-produced-food-like-substance.
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I didnât realize heâd spent most of it on the lab equipment. To be honest, I skipped through the video.
an upcoming Royal Institution Lecture. You need to register to virtually attend; though in all probability it will eventually end up on youtube .
Tuesday, November 17 2020
2:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) GMT -5
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Machâs principle tries to explain rotational inertia by suggesting that the distant stars form a reference from. But theyâre all accelerating away from us. And presumably having their distant stars accelerating away from them. So they donât form a reference frame for scale and linear inertia, s it still reasonable or even possible for them to form a reference frame for rotational inertia?
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Frame dragging is a thing but, for example, I donât think the Milky Way drags our frame much. So⊠maybe?
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Something rotating clockwise always implies something else rotating counterclockwise. Is a frame of reference even needed?
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This is accepted, so I guess itâs true now:
Echinoderms. They old. And weâre able to detect varying evolutionary dynamics over time, even in really morphologically similar taxa.
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There needs to be a category of sad science news 
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On the one hand, radio astronomy has moved on and the âuseâ of PR for this thing was a typical colonial move, like the Navyâs firing range and the continued use of PR as an offshore playground and human-extraction zone for rich shady assholes. On the other hand⊠?
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They are some of the most complete dinosaur skeletons ever found. Whatâs more, the researchers believe the Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton is the only 100% complete T. rex fossil.
Both skeletons are also articulated, meaning all of the bones have been preserved in their proper order. Itâs rare to find one articulated fossil, and this discovery includes two.
Not only did they possibly die locked in a fight, theyâve also been locked in ownership fights for years. But apparently they finally got through itâŠ
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great headline
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