Electricity from Air ..

[weltweit]

Air-gen device makes electricity from air moisture - The Engineer

In an advance that could deliver a constant stream of sustainable electricity, scientists have developed Air-gen, a device that uses a natural protein to create electricity from air moisture.

www.theengineer.co.uk

Looks pretty clever stuff.

This is the sort of thing engineers should be inventing imo

 

[Saul Goodman]

Clever shit. Unfortunately, a quick calculation tells me you'd need around 50,000 square miles of it to boil a kettle.

 

[8ball]

Clever shit. Unfortunately, a quick calculation tells me you'd need around 50,000 square miles of it to boil a kettle.

I thought we’d agreed that people have had enough of experts.

 

[weltweit]

Clever shit. Unfortunately, a quick calculation tells me you'd need around 50,000 square miles of it to boil a kettle.

I'm sure there's plenty of potential to develop it, and anyhow who needs coffee, when you might be able to power devices with it!?

 

[Saul Goodman]

I'm sure there's plenty of potential to develop it, and anyhow who needs coffee, when you might be able to power devices with it!?

We know that electric eels make electricity. A lot more than the silly shite you posted, yet we don't enslave eels to for our electrical needs... because it would be fucking stupid... because they don't produce enough of it.

 

[existentialist]

Air-gen device makes electricity from air moisture - The Engineer

In an advance that could deliver a constant stream of sustainable electricity, scientists have developed Air-gen, a device that uses a natural protein to create electricity from air moisture.

www.theengineer.co.uk

Looks pretty clever stuff.

This is the sort of thing engineers should be inventing imo

Engineers don't invent things because they should, they invent them because they can.

 

[RTWL]

Clever shit. Unfortunately, a quick calculation tells me you'd need around 50,000 square miles of it to boil a kettle.

You do not understand how scientific development works do you? Technologies take years of RnD and development before their use becomes apparent. You do not just have an idea, click your fingers and hey presto

The Solar Panel -

• 1839 - Alexandre Edmond Becquerel observes the photovoltaic effect via an electrode in a conductive solution exposed to light.
• 2018 - Alta Devices, a US-based specialty gallium arsenide (GaAs) PV manufacturer, claimed to have achieved a solar cell conversion efficiency record of 29.1%, as certified by Germany's Fraunhofer ISE CalLab.