Researchers discover how to harvest electricity from humid air using nearly any material
Jun Yao, the paper's senior author, reminds us that air contains an enormous amount of energy. Yao points to a cloud, which is nothing more than a...
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Jun Yao, the paper's senior author, reminds us that air contains an enormous amount of energy. Yao points to a cloud, which is nothing more than a...
Since humidity is ever-present, a harvester could run 24/7, rain or shine, at night and whether or not the wind blows.
Because humidity is ever-present, a harvester could produce clean, pollution-free energy 24/7, rain or shine, at night and without wind.
A team of engineers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has recently shown that nearly any material can be turned into a device that continuously harvests electricity from humidity in the a ...
The secret to the method is the capability of peppering a material with nanopores less than 100 nanometers in diameter.