Emerging Technologies

 I like to find articles that are more on the positive side of information since the world is more focused on the negative or the problems without really talking about realistic solution. The article I chose had 12 emerging technologies but I'm going to mention my favorite. 

Shannon Yee, an assistant professor at Georgia Tech, and his group are using nuclear waste to produce electricity. His project is funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and is working with Stanford University to make this device work. Researchers from Stanford have a similar photovoltaic devices expect the one that Yee is using high energy electrons emitted from nuclear byproducts. 


Photovoltaic is relating to the production of electric current at the junction of two substances exposed to light according to Oxford dictionary. Basically what solar panels are and do. Betavoltaic is relating to an electric current that is generated by beta particles (electrons) emitted from a radioactive source according to Cambridge dictionary. This is the device that Yee and his team are trying to make. 


Betavoltaic technology has been around and used since the 1950s but has not been expanded upon as much as other types of technology. Yee is wanting to use Strontium-90 to fuel his device because if gives off more energy during the decaying process and its energy spectrum works well with architecture used today. This means that it fuel conversion devices like power plants, electric motors, etc. 

I chose this project as one of my favorites because if this succeeds and becomes incorporated into industries and energy power companies, the world could have more energy and power and less of draining/ destroying the earth. This could help poorer countries have electricity and power which would bring down poverty in some way. There is a lot of good that could come from the Betavoltaic device and I believe that we can and hopefully will use it to its full potential.   

Website:https://rh.gatech.edu/features/12-emerging-technologies-may-help-power-future

                                                                                                                           Aliyah Ashby  Sept. 30 2020

 

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  1. BobOctober 9, 2020 at 7:36 AM

    This is cool, using marginal/waste products for energy. Hopeful
    bob

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