{"id":72938,"date":"2017-09-30T16:06:19","date_gmt":"2017-09-30T23:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/evaporating-water-could-power-almost-70-of-the-us-electrical-grid"},"modified":"2017-09-30T16:06:19","modified_gmt":"2017-09-30T23:06:19","slug":"evaporating-water-could-power-almost-70-of-the-us-electrical-grid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/evaporating-water-could-power-almost-70-of-the-us-electrical-grid","title":{"rendered":"Evaporating Water Could Power Almost 70% of The US Electrical Grid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/evaporating-water-could-power-almost-70-of-the-us-electrical-grid.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not every day scientists say a new kind of renewable energy could satisfy the majority of our power needs, so when they do, it\u2019s worth leaning in close.<\/p>\n<p>In a first-of-its-kind study, researchers have found that energy harvested from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/researchers-find-a-way-to-harvest-electricity-from-evaporating-water\">evaporation<\/a> of water in US lakes and reservoirs could power nearly 70 percent of the nation\u2019s electricity demands, generating a whopping 325 gigawatts of electricity.<\/p>\n<p>Alongside the great strides being made in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/solar-paint-could-let-you-transform-your-entire-house-into-a-clean-source-of-energy\">solar<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/monster-wind-turbine-sets-a-new-record-for-energy-output\">wind<\/a>, biophysicist Ozgur Sahin from Columbia University says natural evaporation represents a massive unexplored resource of environmentally clean power generation, just waiting to be tapped.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/evaporating-water-could-power-almost-70-of-the-us-electrical-grid\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/evaporating-water-could-power-al...rical-grid<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s not every day scientists say a new kind of renewable energy could satisfy the majority of our power needs, so when they do, it\u2019s worth leaning in close. In a first-of-its-kind study, researchers have found that energy harvested from the evaporation of water in US lakes and reservoirs could power nearly 70 percent of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72938","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=72938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}