Tag: energy harvesting
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Solar-Powered Google TV Remote Edges Closer to Reality with Epishine Tech
Smart Remotes Rise to the Challenge of Indoor Lighting Google is exploring greener, longer-lasting options for one of the most-used components in living rooms: the TV remote. In a move that could redefine how we power everyday devices, Epishine is providing its indoor-optimized solar cells for a new Google TV remote. With a focus on…
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Salt-Doped Ice Electricity: Power from Bent Ice with a Twist
How salt-doped ice can generate electricity Researchers from China and Spain, with collaborators in New York, have demonstrated a surprising way to harvest electricity from ice. By introducing salt into ice, the material becomes conducive to flexoelectric effects when bent. Flexoelectricity is the generation of an electrical charge due to non-uniform mechanical strain. In this…
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Ice’s Hidden Power: Flexoelectricity Generates Electricity
Revealing the Hidden Power of Ice Ordinary ice has long been seen as an inert, low-energy material. Yet a collaborative effort led by physicist Xin Wen at Xi’an Jiaotong University has changed that view by showing that ice can actively generate electricity when subjected to mechanical stress. Using thin, bent slabs of saline ice, the…