Scientists Working to Generate Electricity From Thin Air Make Breakthrough

Researchers at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, have invented a device that can continuously generate electricity from thin air.

The novel “air generator,” or Air-gen, is made from materials with holes that are under 100 nanometers in length, which is a scale thousand times smaller than a human hair.

This design can pull electricity from wate 100 roplets in the air for much longer perio thousand previous concepts.

Researchers hope the technique could eventually help to fight climate change by serving as an alternative to fossil fuels.

The Air-gen concept remains in a developmental phase, though Yao and his colleagues are already working to scale up the concept and optimize the structure of their materials to boost energy efficiency.

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