{"id":241041,"date":"2026-07-17T00:26:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T05:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/this-device-pulls-electricity-from-humid-air-using-waste-materials"},"modified":"2026-07-17T00:26:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T05:26:18","slug":"this-device-pulls-electricity-from-humid-air-using-waste-materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/this-device-pulls-electricity-from-humid-air-using-waste-materials","title":{"rendered":"This device pulls electricity from humid air using waste materials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-device-pulls-electricity-from-humid-air-using-waste-materials2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Imagine what would happen if the source of your electricity was not the sun, wind, or water flow, but rather the moisture present in the air? The ability of moisture to provide energy has been well-known for a long time, although harnessing that invisible power for generating electricity has been a difficult task. Until recently, all of the proposed generators were either inefficient or too expensive to use in real-life settings.<\/p>\n<p>As reported in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41598-026-61180-8\" target=\"_blank\">study<\/a> in <i>Scientific Reports<\/i>, scientists were able to create a low-cost and flexible electrical generator that harnesses the energy from moisture and also gives a second life to waste materials.<\/p>\n<p>A single generator was capable of producing enough voltage (up to 1.16 volts) to surpass many of the previous humidity-based generators, and multiple generators can even provide the energy needed to light up an LED light bulb without using any external capacitors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine what would happen if the source of your electricity was not the sun, wind, or water flow, but rather the moisture present in the air? The ability of moisture to provide energy has been well-known for a long time, although harnessing that invisible power for generating electricity has been a difficult task. Until recently, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241041","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=241041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}