{"id":176686,"date":"2023-11-24T22:44:44","date_gmt":"2023-11-25T04:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/harnessing-the-seas-hidden-energy-new-nano-device-turns-seawater-into-electricity"},"modified":"2023-11-24T22:44:44","modified_gmt":"2023-11-25T04:44:44","slug":"harnessing-the-seas-hidden-energy-new-nano-device-turns-seawater-into-electricity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/harnessing-the-seas-hidden-energy-new-nano-device-turns-seawater-into-electricity","title":{"rendered":"Harnessing the Sea\u2019s Hidden Energy: New Nano-Device Turns Seawater Into Electricity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/harnessing-the-seas-hidden-energy-new-nano-device-turns-seawater-into-electricity.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The world\u2019s coastlines harbor a largely untapped energy source: the salinity difference between seawater and freshwater. A new nanodevice can harness this difference to generate power.<\/p>\n<p>A team of researchers at the <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/university-of-illinois-at-urbana-champaign\/\">University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign<\/a> has reported a design for a nanofluidic device capable of converting ionic flow into usable electric power in the journal <em><i>Nano Energy<\/i><\/em>. The team believes that their device could be used to extract power from the natural ionic flows at seawater-freshwater boundaries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world\u2019s coastlines harbor a largely untapped energy source: the salinity difference between seawater and freshwater. A new nanodevice can harness this difference to generate power. A team of researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has reported a design for a nanofluidic device capable of converting ionic flow into usable electric power in the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176686","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}