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The radioactive diamond battery that will run for 28 000 years

IN LESS THAN TWO YEARS, YOU MIGHT BE ABLE to buy a smartwatch – powered with a radioactive diamond battery – that will outlive you and your progeny for generations.

The potentially game-changing battery comes from the San Francisco-based start-up Nano Diamond Battery (NDB), which lauds its namesake ‘high-power diamond-based alpha, beta, and neutron voltaic battery’ for its ability to give devices ‘life-long and green energy’. Imagine: Just one battery could power your insulin pump or pacemaker for your entire life (with loads of time to spare). Or it could provide

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