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rashidas wrote: Here is a link to an article in New Scientist about nanomaterials that can convert radioactivity directly into electricity:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13545-nanomaterial-turns-radiation-directly-into-electricity.html

Would this process have an application in High Density Plasma (Focus) Fusion?

What I gather from the article is that this is a fission-oriented approach which won’t be of much help to a Focus Fusion aneutronic fusion reactor… because the output of an FF is basically alpha particles, x-rays and heat.

The coils around the FF alpha beam already convert the energy of the alphas to electricity much more efficiently… and much more cheaply… than the gold-stuffed nanotubes would 🙂

… what this is, is Heinlein’s isotopic batteries, is what it is….