cdarwin, ‘It was an accident’: the scientists who have turned humid air into renewable power
The promise of #electricity from humid #air – #hygroelectricity – is capturing researchers’ imaginations.
In May, a team at the University of Massachusetts Amherst published a paper declaring they had successfully generated a small but continuous electric current from humidity in the air.
“To be frank, it was an #accident,” says the study’s lead author, Prof Jun Yao. “We were actually interested in making a simple sensor for humidity in the air. But for whatever reason, the student who was working on that #forgot to plug in the #power.”
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