{"id":10569,"date":"2023-07-02T10:37:21","date_gmt":"2023-07-02T08:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/02\/it-was-an-accident-the-scientists-who-have-turned-humid-air-into-renewable-power\/"},"modified":"2023-07-02T10:37:21","modified_gmt":"2023-07-02T08:37:21","slug":"it-was-an-accident-the-scientists-who-have-turned-humid-air-into-renewable-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/02\/it-was-an-accident-the-scientists-who-have-turned-humid-air-into-renewable-power\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It was an accident\u2019: the scientists who have turned humid air into renewable power"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tesla speculated electricity from thin air was was possible \u2013 now the question is whether it will be possible to harness it on the scale needed to power our homes<\/p>\n

In the early 20th century, Serbian inventor Nikola Tesla<\/a> dreamed of pulling limitless free electricity <\/a>from the air around us. Ever ambitious, Tesla was thinking on a vast scale, effectively looking at the Earth and upper atmosphere as two ends of an enormous battery. Needless to say, his dreams were never realised, but the promise of air-derived electricity \u2013 hygroelectricity<\/a> \u2013 is now capturing researchers\u2019 imaginations again. The difference: they\u2019re not thinking big, but very, very small.<\/p>\n

In May, a team at the University of Massachusetts (UMass) Amherst published a paper<\/a> declaring they had successfully generated a small but continuous electric current from humidity in the air. It\u2019s a claim that will probably raise a few eyebrows, and when the team made the discovery that inspired this new research in 2018, it did.<\/p>\n

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\nTesla speculated electricity from thin air was was possible \u2013 now the question is whether it will be possible to harness it on the scale needed to power our homes
\nIn the early 20th century, Serbian inventor Nikola Tesla dreamed of pulling limitless free electricity from the air around us. Ever ambitious, Tesla was thinking on a vast scale, effectively looking at the Earth and upper atmosphere as two ends of an enormous battery. Needless to say, his dreams were never realised, but the promise of air-derived electricity \u2013 hygroelectricity \u2013 is now capturing researchers\u2019 imaginations again. The difference: they\u2019re not thinking big, but very, very small.
\nIn May, a team at the University of Massachusetts (UMass) Amherst published a paper declaring they had successfully generated a small but continuous electric current from humidity in the air. It\u2019s a claim that will probably raise a few eyebrows, and when the team made the discovery that inspired this new research in 2018, it did. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tesla speculated electricity from thin air was was possible \u2013 now the question is whether it will be possible to harness it on the scale needed to power our homes In the early 20th century, Serbian inventor Nikola Tesla dreamed of pulling limitless free electricity from the air around us. Ever ambitious, Tesla was thinking …<\/p>\n

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