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Scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have developed a device that uses a natural protein to create electricity from moisture in the air, a new technology they say could have significant implications for the future of renewable energy, climate change and in the future of Medicine...
Recently reported in the magazine Nature....Electrical engineer Jun Yao and Microbiologist Derek Lovley at UMass Amherst, have created a device they call an "Air-Gen" or Air Powered Generator with electrically conductive protein Nano-Wires produced by the microbe Geobacter...
The Air-Gen connects electrodes to the protein Nano-Wires in such a way that electrical current is generated from the water vapour that is naturally present in the Atmosphere...We are literally making electricity out of "thin air", says Jun Yao...The Air-Gen generates clean energy 24/7...
The new technology developed in Jun Yaos lab is non polluting, renewable and low cost...It can generate power even in areas with extremely low humidity such as the Sahara Desert...It has significant advantage over other forms of renewable energy including Solar and Wind says Derek Lovley, because unlike these other renewable energy sources, the Air-Gen does not require Sunlight or Wind AND it even works "indoors"!!..
Recently reported in the magazine Nature....Electrical engineer Jun Yao and Microbiologist Derek Lovley at UMass Amherst, have created a device they call an "Air-Gen" or Air Powered Generator with electrically conductive protein Nano-Wires produced by the microbe Geobacter...
The Air-Gen connects electrodes to the protein Nano-Wires in such a way that electrical current is generated from the water vapour that is naturally present in the Atmosphere...We are literally making electricity out of "thin air", says Jun Yao...The Air-Gen generates clean energy 24/7...
The new technology developed in Jun Yaos lab is non polluting, renewable and low cost...It can generate power even in areas with extremely low humidity such as the Sahara Desert...It has significant advantage over other forms of renewable energy including Solar and Wind says Derek Lovley, because unlike these other renewable energy sources, the Air-Gen does not require Sunlight or Wind AND it even works "indoors"!!..