Comment on See-Through Windows Make Clean Electricity From Raindrops
tal@lemmy.today 5 weeks agoI mean, not in the sense that they’re trying to do it, but that’s ultimately what drives hydroelectric dams.
Comment on See-Through Windows Make Clean Electricity From Raindrops
tal@lemmy.today 5 weeks agoI mean, not in the sense that they’re trying to do it, but that’s ultimately what drives hydroelectric dams.
stuner@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Sure, but those are completely different approaches. Dams have the advantage that they have a much larger capture area for water and that they can accelerate the water beyond the 10 m/s terminal velocity of raindrops.
Zwiebel@feddit.org 5 weeks ago
We gotta build a reservoir just below cloud level and then put turbines all the way down to sea level to harvest more of the energy
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Blimp reservoirs!