Fuente thetimes.co.uk
Solar panels are all very well, but what Britain really needs is a rain panel.
While
on sunny days the UK can produce more than 8GW of solar energy, enough
to meet almost a quarter of its demands, on dull days during winter
output falls below 1GW.
Scientists in China claim to have solved
this problem with a device that can turn from harvesting the energy in
the sun’s rays to capturing the mechanical energy from falling
raindrops.
They
say that the technology could be incorporated into
electricity-generating raincoats that power the wearer’s gadgets while
they splash through a downpour.
The prototype, described in the journal ACS Nano, works like a normal silicon solar cell in sunshine then switches over in the rain to a…
The prototype, described in the journal ACS Nano, works like a normal silicon solar cell in sunshine then switches over in the rain to a…