What the team of Scientists has done is that they have created a human-built, small-scale cloud that produces electricity.
The scientists said that the air contains an enormous amount of electricity.
- The researchers demonstrated that any material can be turn into a device.
- These devices could harvest electricity
- The system works on the “generic Air-gen effect”
In what could be a major boost to clean energy aspirations of the rapidly warming world, a team of scientists have successfully generated electricity from nothing but just thin air.
The researchers proved that any material may be utilise to harvest power from humidity by covering it with nanopores fewer than 100 nanometers in diameter.
What the team of scientists has done is they have created a human-built, small-scale cloud that produces electricity.
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The team of scientists said that according to their theory, any kind of material can harvest electricity from the air, as long as it has a certain property.
The team designed an electricity harvester on this concept with a thin layer of material filled with nanopores smaller than 100 nm that would let water molecules pass from the upper to the lower part of the material.
However, since the pores are so small, the water molecules would bump into the pores’ edge as they pass through the thin layer. This means that the upper part of the layer would be bombarded with many more charge-carrying water molecules than the lower part, creating a charge imbalance, like that in a cloud.This would effectually create a battery, or power.
The team says that since air has humidity all the time, the harvesters could, therefore, generate energy 24*7 and offers a new alternative to solar and wind energy.