Oh, goodie, yet another pie-in-the-sky technology that we will never see realized in our lifetimes. Add it to the rest and stow them away in the trunk of your flying car.
Nicola Tesla is rolling in his grave,shaking his head.
At this point, Air-gen generates “a sustained voltage of around 0.5 volts across a 7-micrometre-thick film, with a current density of around 17 microamperes per square centimeter,” enough power to run small electronics.
17 μA is perhaps the current drawn when the device is off.
They also expect it to soon provide power for mobile phones the user will no longer need to recharge.
1 cm² for 17 μA. Say you only charge the phone at 100mA at 5V. That would require 5 square meters of this stuff (63 square feet).
Tesla tried to give us all free power.
I'll wait for it to be perfected enough to charge electric vehicles. till the; It's just another con.
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