MIT Created A Magical Device That Can Generate Electricity From Just Air. No Kidding.
A team at MIT designed a novel way to convert temperature fluctuations into electrical power.
Electricity is pretty much the oxygen of human civilization right now -- everything is powered by it, after all. Generating electricity is also harming increasingly harming our planet.
So imagine if there was a way to generate electricity with zero side effects? Where you could create power from thin air. Sounds too good to be true? Prepare to have your mind blown!
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Forget solar panels, coals or windmills. Or light bulbs connected to potatoes. Researchers at MIT have created a table-top generator that can create electricity from thin air. No exaggeration.
The technology developed at MIT is actually producing electricity every day taking advantage of temperature fluctuations. The device is called a thermal resonator, and it can generate electricity without being out in the sunlight -- it can operate fully well and produce electricity from seemingly nothing in an indoor environment as well.
This remarkable breakthrough was reported in the journal Nature Communications, in the form of a paper published by graduate student Anton Cottrill, Carbon P. Dubbs, Professor of Chemical Engineering Michael Strano, and seven others in MIT¡¯s Department of Chemical Engineering.
¡°We¡¯ve built the first thermal resonator. It¡¯s something that can sit on a desk and generate energy out of what seems like nothing," Strano was quoted as saying.
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He further went on to mention how we are constantly surrounded by temperature fluctuations of all different frequencies all of the time in our surrounding. They are previously untapped source of energy.
While the amount of electricity generated by the thermal resonator is modest at best right now, this discovery could enable continuous, years-long operation of remote sensing systems -- without the need of any power sources or batteries. A lamp, for example, could be on just by being exposed to air. Or a computer or TV, or maybe even a smartphone.
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