"Smart, Small, Cheap Device Produces Electricity..." Topic
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| Tango01 | 05 Oct 2019 9:44 p.m. PST |
…. From Falling Snow. "A new – the first of its kind – device that creates electricity from falling snow, have been designed by researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). The device is small, inexpensive, thin and flexible like a sheet of plastic…."
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 etotheipi  | 06 Oct 2019 3:07 a.m. PST |
Pretty soon every rooftop in LA will be covered with this stuff to get "free" energy from all the snow that falls there, |
| Grelber | 06 Oct 2019 10:41 a.m. PST |
Interesting concept. We'd probably get more mileage out of it here in Colorado Springs than they would in Los Angeles. Not clear how efficient it is, though. Would you need vast areas of silicon to power my house? Grelber |
| Tango01 | 06 Oct 2019 2:42 p.m. PST |
Glad you like it my friend! Amicalement
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| von Schwartz | 06 Oct 2019 5:03 p.m. PST |
Yeah, I bet that would work even better than solar panels in Minnesota…in January. |
Raynman  | 06 Oct 2019 8:48 p.m. PST |
Wisconsin would be a good place to test it too! Darn snow! I wonder how large the sheets are and how would you install them? |
| Tango01 | 07 Oct 2019 10:12 a.m. PST |
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