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MIT Engineers Have Discovered a Completely New Way of Generating Electricity
- cratermoon 5y ago"tiny carbon particles that can create a current simply by interacting with liquid surrounding them" Sounds like a battery. "Batteries convert chemical energy directly to electrical energy. In many cases, the electrical energy released is the difference in the cohesive or bond energies of the metals, oxides, or molecules undergoing the electrochemical reaction"
- jp57 5y agoThe article seems to talk about energy and electrons as if they are interchangeable. It also talks about "scavenging energy from the environment". I couldn't tell where the energy is actually coming from. Is there some store of potential energy that's getting depleted? Is it absorbing ambient heat and cooling its surroundings?
- xwolfi 5y agohttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-23038-7 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-23038-7
- cratermoon 5y agoIt works the same way as a battery. The story is kind of garbage.