Next, they will tell us that Tesla might have been right.
Sounds kinds passive.
It won’t work. Democrats will tell us it’s harming the moisture.
Another phoney looking for idiots to invest in him.
When you need electricity, you turn on the tap and run the water through a tiny hydroelectric dam.
The comments at the site are over 3 years old why post it now.
You mean I can pish into the air and recharge my EV ?
WOOT! (SARC.)
Whatever you do, don’t eat the yellow snow.
Probably has no real usefulness - if it ever does, they will start to tax moisture and natural proteins...đ
“current density of around 17 microamperes per square centimetre.”
If my math is correct, it would take a 7.8 by 7.8 foot panel to produce 1 amp.
The EPA will declare the moisture in the air as being ‘wet lands’ ant there for protected
Iâm still betting on cold fusion (sarcasm). Interesting how these âbreakthroughsâ never seem to pan out or advance beyond small laboratory experiments that could never be scaled up to any useful level. We have decades of experience with generating limitless carbon free electricity in nuclear power yet the greens would have us blighting the landscape with fickle windmills or putting our trust in highly toxic batteries that are prone to unquenchable fires.
Very low power output (small electronic devices) with no hint it could be scaled up to be a major source of electricity.
They should name it e-Wet.
Just like the “air-water” device that was supposed to “save the planet”. Except it didn’t work in the most arid regions on earth due to lack of moisture in the atmosphere.
John Galt probably has the patent.
Makes electricity,,, cool,, now make plastics out of air and we can get rid of fossil fuels ,,,.
Civilization without oil or coal equals the stone age.
The bacteria involved is Geobacter. This bacteria is unfamiliar to me so I read up on it a very small bit. It's a soil bacteria that has some interesting capabilities apparently pump electrons that have some amount of ability to change the oxidative state of some metal ions. I have the impression that some kind of work is taking place to see if Geobacter can be useful for in situ soil remediation where the soil contains toxic metals.
In the 1970s and in college, I worked on a research project on something roughly similar. It used a different bacteria, Halobacter, that naturally lives in high salt concentrations that are not compatible with much of any other organism. It does this by pumping electrons to maintain the ionic balance inside the bacteria cell such that it can sustain its life functions. Our techniques were pretty crude but were sufficient to show we could generate a trivial electric potential. So, generally think of this as a zero utility curiosity.
The OP uses an interesting term ânano wiresâ. To me, this suggests that they may be harvesting very specific proteins. If they can also can orient the protein within the support substrate in the same north-south direction plus the same positive-negative orientation, the electrical potential can be way greater than that old, caveman work with Halobacteria.
OverallâŚ. Color me skeptical that this ever becomes commercially viable.
My opinionsâŚ.
Air-gen, at this point, is a low voltage device. What would it take to up scale it to power the typical needs of a house?