{"id":196850,"date":"2024-10-01T05:24:33","date_gmt":"2024-10-01T10:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/new-cooling-system-works-on-gravity-instead-of-electricity"},"modified":"2024-10-01T05:24:33","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T10:24:33","slug":"new-cooling-system-works-on-gravity-instead-of-electricity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/new-cooling-system-works-on-gravity-instead-of-electricity","title":{"rendered":"New cooling system works on gravity instead of electricity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-cooling-system-works-on-gravity-instead-of-electricity3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Its abundance of sunlight and heavy investment in solar cell technology has positioned Saudi Arabia well in its transition to becoming a leading exporter of renewable energy. Indeed, solar energy currently makes up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/2494576\/business-economy\" target=\"_blank\">more than 80%<\/a> of the Kingdom\u2019s green energy capacity. However, these cells bring a twisted irony, as their operation exposes them to overheating risks. Cooling systems are therefore necessary, but many depend on electricity.<\/p>\n<p>An international research team led by KAUST Professor Qiaoqiang Gan has designed a potential solution. Their device needs no electricity, as it extracts water from the air using nothing more than gravity and relies on cheap, readily available materials.<\/p>\n<p>Along with keeping the solar cells and other <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/semiconductor+technologies\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">semiconductor technologies<\/a> cool, the water can be repurposed for irrigation, washing, cooling buildings on which the solar cells are placed, and other applications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its abundance of sunlight and heavy investment in solar cell technology has positioned Saudi Arabia well in its transition to becoming a leading exporter of renewable energy. Indeed, solar energy currently makes up more than 80% of the Kingdom\u2019s green energy capacity. However, these cells bring a twisted irony, as their operation exposes them to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196850","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=196850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}