{"id":164651,"date":"2023-05-27T13:23:20","date_gmt":"2023-05-27T18:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/engineers-harvest-abundant-clean-energy-from-thin-air-24-7"},"modified":"2023-05-27T13:23:20","modified_gmt":"2023-05-27T18:23:20","slug":"engineers-harvest-abundant-clean-energy-from-thin-air-24-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/engineers-harvest-abundant-clean-energy-from-thin-air-24-7","title":{"rendered":"Engineers harvest abundant clean energy from thin air, 24\/7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/engineers-harvest-abundant-clean-energy-from-thin-air-24-7.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of engineers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has recently shown that nearly any material can be turned into a device that continuously harvests electricity from humidity in the air. The secret lies in being able to pepper the material with nanopores less than 100 nanometers in diameter. The research appeared in the journal Advanced Materials.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is very exciting,\u201d says Xiaomeng Liu, a graduate student in electrical and computer engineering in UMass Amherst\u2019s College of Engineering and the paper\u2019s lead author. \u201cWe are opening up a wide door for harvesting clean <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/electricity\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">electricity<\/a> from thin air.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe air contains an enormous amount of electricity,\u201d says Jun Yao, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering in the College of Engineering at UMass Amherst, and the paper\u2019s senior author. \u201cThink of a cloud, which is nothing more than a mass of water droplets. Each of those droplets contains a charge, and when conditions are right, the cloud can produce a lightning bolt\u2014but we don\u2019t know how to reliably capture electricity from lightning. What we\u2019ve done is to create a human-built, small-scale cloud that produces electricity for us predictably and continuously so that we can harvest it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of engineers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has recently shown that nearly any material can be turned into a device that continuously harvests electricity from humidity in the air. The secret lies in being able to pepper the material with nanopores less than 100 nanometers in diameter. The research appeared in the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,1523,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-computing","category-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164651","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}