{"id":199747,"date":"2024-11-19T09:25:41","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T15:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/scientists-develop-incredible-gravity-powered-system-that-could-change-the-way-we-use-solar-panels-it-doesnt-consume-any-electricity"},"modified":"2024-11-19T09:25:41","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T15:25:41","slug":"scientists-develop-incredible-gravity-powered-system-that-could-change-the-way-we-use-solar-panels-it-doesnt-consume-any-electricity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/scientists-develop-incredible-gravity-powered-system-that-could-change-the-way-we-use-solar-panels-it-doesnt-consume-any-electricity","title":{"rendered":"Scientists develop incredible gravity-powered system that could change the way we use solar panels: \u2018It doesn\u2019t consume any electricity\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gDK0n2I_4Nc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Researchers in Saudi Arabia have developed a solution to overheating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecooldown.com\/solar-panels\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"25\" title=\"Solar Panels\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">solar panels<\/a> that requires zero electricity. This development can also double as a method for atmospheric water collection, an important practice in dry regions, <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/gravity-powered-innovation-transforms-renewable-energy-solar-panels-that-cool-and-water-themselves\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">as relayed by<\/a> SciTechDaily.<\/p>\n<p>The research, led by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaust.edu.sa\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">King Abdullah University of Science and Technology<\/a> professor Qiaoqiang Gan, is important because it addresses the problem of overheating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecooldown.com\/solar-panels\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"25\" title=\"Solar Panels\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">solar panels<\/a> in particularly hot and sunny regions, such as Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers discovered that moisture from atmospheric water could serve as a coolant for the overheating panels. \u201cThis water can be collected by atmospheric water harvesting technologies,\u201d Gan <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/gravity-powered-innovation-transforms-renewable-energy-solar-panels-that-cool-and-water-themselves\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">stated<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers in Saudi Arabia have developed a solution to overheating solar panels that requires zero electricity. This development can also double as a method for atmospheric water collection, an important practice in dry regions, as relayed by SciTechDaily. The research, led by King Abdullah University of Science and Technology professor Qiaoqiang Gan, is important because [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199747","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\/199747","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}