{"id":76429,"date":"2018-02-28T20:02:43","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T04:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/mit-engineers-have-built-a-device-that-pulls-electricity-out-of-thin-air"},"modified":"2018-02-28T20:02:43","modified_gmt":"2018-03-01T04:02:43","slug":"mit-engineers-have-built-a-device-that-pulls-electricity-out-of-thin-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/mit-engineers-have-built-a-device-that-pulls-electricity-out-of-thin-air","title":{"rendered":"MIT Engineers Have Built a Device That Pulls Electricity Out of Thin Air"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mit-engineers-have-built-a-device-that-pulls-electricity-out-of-thin-air.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Temperature changes large and small are happening around us all the time, and scientists have come up with a machine that can convert those fluctuations into electricity, potentially powering sensors and communication devices almost out of thin air.<\/p>\n<p>The energy harvesting is done through what\u2019s called a thermal resonator: a device that captures heat on one side and radiates it over to the other. As both sides try and reach equilibrium, the energy can be caught using the process of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thermoelectric_effect\">thermoelectrics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to the team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the new thermal resonator could keep remote sensors or any off-grid devices powered up for years, just by using temperature swings \u2013 like the natural ones between night and day, for instance.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/engineers-build-thermal-resonator-device-making-electricity-out-of-thin-air\">https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/engineers-build-thermal-resonat...f-thin-air<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Temperature changes large and small are happening around us all the time, and scientists have come up with a machine that can convert those fluctuations into electricity, potentially powering sensors and communication devices almost out of thin air. The energy harvesting is done through what\u2019s called a thermal resonator: a device that captures heat on [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1694],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76429","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\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}