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New nanogenerators offer 140x power density, could replace solar cells (interestingengineering.com)
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[โ€“] theangriestbird@beehaw.org 10 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Can someone explain this a bit better? I'm not exactly getting what these are. So they are nanogenerators, which coulkd be used as a component of all electricity-generating technologies? The article specifically talks about them converting kinetic energy into electrical, but i'm confused by the solar cell comparison. Wouldn't these be implemented into new solar panels to increase their efficiency? It seems like these still need a "fuel", like all energy-generation methods?

[โ€“] cosmic_skillet@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months ago

Yeah you got taken by the clickbait headline just like me

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