WAIT WHAT?!
We are capable of pulling energy straight out of (humid) thin air now?! 🤯

"“To be frank, it was an accident,” says the study’s lead author, Prof Jun Yao. “We were actually interested in making a simple sensor for humidity in the air. But for whatever reason, the student who was working on that forgot to plug in the power.”

The UMass Amherst team were surprised to find that the device, which comprised an array of microscopic tubes, or nanowires, was producing an electrical signal regardless.

(...)

However, 20,000 of them stacked into a washing machine-sized cube, they say, could generate 10 kilowatt hours of energy a day – roughly the consumption of an average UK household. Even more impressive: they plan to have a prototype ready for demonstration in 2024."

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/jul/02/it-was-an-accident-the-scientists-who-have-turned-humid-air-into-renewable-power

#Energy #ClimateSolutions #Renewable

Welcome to #Mastodon 🦣 new people running away from the 🐦 on 🔥🔥

Here are my 2 cents on how I got 🦣 to work for me,

I started with following who I knew from 🐦 and liked

I listed the topics I am interested in reading about, put those into # and started following people with the same interests

The more I followed, the better the experience became  

Always caption your pix, always be courteous and kind 😊

🦣 has an EDIT button  

Have fun! 

Stop worshipping billionaires.

Elon Musk threw away tens of billions of dollars to buy Twitter, and has spent the last year running it into the ground.

When billionaires take control of our most vital platforms for communication, it’s not a win for free speech.

It’s a win for oligarchy.