Triboelectric revolution - renewable energy in action Bashny.Net

What methods of electric power generation did not invent. In General, meet ebony wand with a silk cloth in a new way. The developers claim in the great prospects of the forgotten method.

Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology announced the creation of efficient and reliable device, which can turn into electricity energy, which mankind for hundreds of years wasted.

We are talking about the so-called triboelectric generator: device that generates electricity by friction between two surfaces. With triboelectrization familiar to anyone who has walked in your socks on a synthetic carpet.

Until now, the technology for collecting triboelectricity was too unpredictable and unreliable, so most of the generators based on the principle of magnetic induction. But in the new study, published in Nature Communications, scientists and engineers claim that they managed to overcome key barriers to technology collection triboelectricity. This means that mankind is now available inexhaustible sources of energy: the movement of the waves, walking (sidewalks, stairs, corridors), dance floors, rain, wind, computer keys, public transport and thousands of other places and things.





Triboelectrostatic has a simple and robust design Prototype tribalenergy is a thin washer with a diameter of 10 cm Inside there are two round plates: one gives electrons and the other accepts. Plates separated by a dielectric air layer, but is provided intermediate the third disc with electrodes, which as a result of rotation of tribalenergy connect the plate and take an electric charge. When the maximum rotational speed of 3,000 rpm, the device generates 1.5 watts and has a conversion efficiency of 24%, which is 3 times higher than that of the piezoelectric generators and comparable with the effectiveness of traditional magnetic induction generators.



Triboelectrostatic produces electricity, spinning in the wind

The only serious drawback of tribalenergy is the use of gold for the electrodes, but the developers report that the gold can be replaced by cheaper synthetic materials. New generator, rotating from the wind and other mechanical forces, capable of producing "free" electricity, and it can be cheaper than generators with magnets of the rare earth metals.

Source: www.mobipower.ru/