Engineers Harvest Clean, Continuous Energy From Air: “It Opens All Kinds of Possibilities”
6th January 2025
There’s electricity in the air over at the University of Massachusetts Amherst — both the literal and metaphorical varieties.
A team of engineers at the institution have discovered a method of successfully harvesting energy from air humidity in a predictable and continuous manner, and they say the technology can be scaled up and applied broadly. They published their findings last month [January 2023] in the journal Advanced Materials.
“This is very exciting,” lead author Xiaomeng Liu said in a UMass Amherst news release. “We are opening up a wide door for harvesting clean electricity from thin air.”
January 6th, 2025 at 21:39
Imagine a stack of these wafers placed in Nautilus Shell alignment, part of the generated electricity/waste heat used to generate steam to force through the apparatus similar to how a turbo works.
Probably wouldn’t work, but if it does I’d like credit.