Futureproof Extra: Harvesting electricity from thin air
Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea
English - June 27, 2023 06:30 - 14 minutes - 13.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsScience radio Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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As our energy consumption continues to grow, we will need to find more and more ways to actually create the electricity we need.
But soon you might be able to generate clean energy from thin air and that’s just one of the potential uses of a new device created by Dr. Jun Yao, Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and his team at the University of Massachusetts.
He joins Jonathan to discuss.