344
‘It was an accident’: the scientists who have turned humid air into renewable power
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 02 Jul 2023
344 points (98.0% liked)
Technology
59605 readers
3604 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related content.
- Be excellent to each another!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
Approved Bots
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Not atleast to the blades, this needs air to flow through it, wind turbines need air flow to push the blades. Exact opposite needs. Any flow through thing like this would cause either loss of power as the blade itself or source of drag as ancillary to the blades.
Like one could put one next to wind turbine, but question is their sense in it. Why not just use the turbines directly and put up extra turbines at expense of this machine.
They would have to have amazing full cycle efficiency to make it work. Not like that doesn't happen at times like heat pump powered by electricity being better than direct electric heating. However as said they would have to show pretty amazing efficiency numbers and at scale. Just because it works in small scale in lab doesn't mean it works at large scale or outside of sterile lab environment.