Electricity from thin air -- apparently not a hoax??
Protein nano-wires that generate juice -- now imagine your awning covered with these little devices: Article But don't hold your breath waiting for this to be commercially available.
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p220sigman wrote:
While I'm a believer that it is possible, I noticed the lack of description of how much energy is produced per given amount of nanowire and how much current is actually there? It is going to have to be pretty significant to scale up for energy replacement, not to mention just how fragile is a nanowire that is less than 10 microns thick. I would think just looking at it too hard would break them. Still, it will be a game changer if they can scale it up even for just small electronics.
It's more of a working concept and not an actual working model. They did compare it to an AirGen at about 1/3 the AirGen capacity. So using laboratory operating AirGens as an example, it would take this newer technology about 2 acres of surface area to product 1 amp at 12 volts.
