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Vladislav Kiselev is a Ukrainian scientist who has made a stunning new claim. The man claims that he has developed a type of battery that can power gadgets like smartphones and even cars for up to 12 years, without having to be recharged.

According to Oddity Central, Kiselev, a senior
researcher at the Institute of Bioorganic
Chemistry and Petrochemistry in Kiev, and
professor at Ukraine’s National Academy of
Sciences, unveiled his intriguing battery
prototype during the 2016 edition of Sikorsky
Challenge, a prestigious international
competition for research projects.
The matchbox-like device looks fairly
unimpressive, but the Ukrainian scientist
claims that it has been continuously powering
electrical devices for a year and four months
without a single recharge, and will continue to
do so for the next 11 years. That’s because
his “battery” produces energy instead of
simply storing it.
But with virtually all the world’s battery
manufacturers and researchers struggling to
come up with a real breakthrough in battery
technology, how did Kiselev create one that he
claims lasts for 12 years?


The senior researcher says he was able to do
it by taking advantage of a key property of
tritium – the ability to emit electrons. He
adds that American company City Labs also
makes use of the radioactive isotope of
hydrogen, but whereas they use tritium-
covered solar cells, he opted for an enhanced
electrochemical cells, which makes the battery
1,000 times more powerful.
So whereas City Labs NanoTritium™ batteries
provide low power to devices like medical
implants and various sensors, Kiselev’s
version can be used to power large electronic
devices and even cars.
The scientist adds that electrochemical cells
similar to the one he uses in his battery have
been used in Ukraine since the 1930s, but no
one has ever been able to use them for energy
generation. He and his team were able to
improve the design in order to achieve this.
Interestingly enough, Kiselev says that after
failing to secure research grants for the
project, he and his colleagues funded
themselves. Now, after presenting the results
of their labor at Sikorsky Challenge, Kiselev
says that he is in talks with both Turkish and
Chinese businessmen to produce a version of
his tritium battery that can be used in mobile
phones.
Regarding the radioactive properties of
tritium, Vladislav Kiselev emphasized the fact
that some radioactive substances are not
hazardous to humans, and tritium is one of
them. It is actually used as a
radioluminescent light source in wristwatches.
Kiselev believes that tritium is the future of
energy, and claims that the fact that 11 of the
world’s most advanced countries are planning
to build an international fusion reactor – also
based on tritium – to produce energy is proof
of that. However, he adds that while such
reactors cost tens of billions of dollars to
build, his tritium batteries are an affordable
way to produce energy for up to 12 years.