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"Fencing in Electricity: Harvesting Power from High-Voltage Transmission Lines"

A YouTube channel, Double M Innovations, conducted an experiment to harvest electricity from high-voltage transmission lines using regular fences, using a capacitor, full bridge rectifier, and coax cable. The results showed the capacitor charging up to 1000 V before the experiment was stopped, indicating the potential to collect significant power from a few kilometers of fencing wire underneath such lines. However, the legal implications of storing the power inductively coupled on fence wire should be discussed with local energy companies.

via Hackaday|

#capacitor-charging #electricity-harvesting #energy-collection

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Nanotechnology breakthrough generates clean electricity from thin air 24/7.

Engineers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have discovered a way to continuously harvest electricity from humidity in the air using a device made of any material with nanopores smaller than 100 nanometers. The device creates a charge imbalance, like that in a cloud, by allowing water molecules to pass through the material, creating a battery that runs as long as there is humidity in the air. The technology could offer cost-effective and environment-adaptable fabrications, and since humidity is ever-present, the harvester would run 24/7, rain or shine, at night and whether or not the wind blows, solving one of the major problems of technologies like wind or solar.

via Science Daily|

#air-gen-effect #clean-energy #electricity-harvesting