{"id":102163,"date":"2020-02-10T12:45:46","date_gmt":"2020-02-10T20:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/scientists-invent-device-to-generate-electricity-from-rain"},"modified":"2020-02-10T12:45:46","modified_gmt":"2020-02-10T20:45:46","slug":"scientists-invent-device-to-generate-electricity-from-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/scientists-invent-device-to-generate-electricity-from-rain","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Invent Device to Generate Electricity From Rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-invent-device-to-generate-electricity-from-rain.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of engineers has figured out how to take a single drop of rain and use it to generate a powerful flash of electricity.<\/p>\n<p>The City University of Hong Kong researchers behind the device, which they\u2019re calling a droplet-based electricity generator (DEG), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityu.edu.hk\/media\/press-release\/2020\/02\/06\/cityu-new-droplet-based-electricity-generator-drop-water-lights-100-small-led-bulbs\">say that a single rain droplet<\/a> can briefly generate 140 volts. That was enough to briefly power 100 small lightbulbs and, while it\u2019s not yet practical enough for everyday use, it\u2019s a promising step toward a new form of renewable electricity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of engineers has figured out how to take a single drop of rain and use it to generate a powerful flash of electricity. The City University of Hong Kong researchers behind the device, which they\u2019re calling a droplet-based electricity generator (DEG), say that a single rain droplet can briefly generate 140 volts. That [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}