Nanogenerator harvests electricity from evaporating seawater

Imagine a device using an energy source the size of planet Earth, and offering nearly limitless electricity with no ecologically devastating mining required to get it. Science fiction? A lie from Big Battery? A fentanyl fantasy from the Energizer Bunny? No – it’s real, and it’s the ocean.

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Category: Energy, Engineering

Tags: EPFL, Clean Energy, Water, Semiconductors