This is silly. It's not going to disrupt Li-ion. Power outputs are way too low. C14 has a half life of 5700 years. This isn't going to output Li-ion levels of power/weight for 5 millennia. It looks like it might give you microwatts/gram, but this is much closer to existing nuclear tech like RTGs or beta voltaics than it is to Li-ion batteries.
> NDB says [the batteries] will be cost-competitive with, and sometimes significantly less expensive than – current lithium batteries. That equation is helped along by the fact that some of the suppliers of the original nuclear waste will pay NDB to take it off their hands.<p>How much C-14 is produce annually?
Unexpectedly, snopes [1] has a good overview of the technology until 2017.<p><a href="https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/radioactive-diamond-batteries-real-thing/" rel="nofollow">https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/radioactive-diamond-batter...</a>
I'm not knowledgeable enough to comment on the validity of these claims but my gut feeling is along the lines of <i>"If it sounds too good to be true..."</i><p>Also, the description of the technology sounds so simple that I find it difficult to believe no-one's thought of it before <i>ergo</i> there must be a catch.<p>It would be great if this was for real though. The possibilities of such such a thing are almost unimaginable.