⛈️ Scientists Find a Way to Harvest Clean Energy From Nothing But Air
Engineers have demonstrated something marvelous. Almost any material can be used to create a device that continuously harvests energy from humid air.
It's not a development that's ready for practical application, but it does, its creators say, transcend some of the limitations of other harvesters. All the material needs is to be pocked with nanopores less than 100 nanometers in diameter. That's around a thousandth of the width of a human hair, so easier said than done but far simpler than expected.
Such material can harvest the electricity generated by microscopic water droplets in humid air, according to a team led by engineer Xiaomeng Liu of the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
They have called their discovery the "generic Air-gen effect".
"The air contains an enormous amount of electricity," says engineer Jun Yao of UMass Amherst.
"Think of a cloud, which is nothing more than a mass of water droplets. Each of those droplets contains a charge, and when conditions are right, the cloud can produce a lightning bolt – but we don't know how to reliably capture electricity from lightning. What we've done is to create a human-built, small-scale cloud that produces electricity for us predictably and continuously so that we can harvest it."
https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-find-a-way-to-harvest-clean-energy-from-nothing-but-air
Engineers have demonstrated something marvelous. Almost any material can be used to create a device that continuously harvests energy from humid air.
It's not a development that's ready for practical application, but it does, its creators say, transcend some of the limitations of other harvesters. All the material needs is to be pocked with nanopores less than 100 nanometers in diameter. That's around a thousandth of the width of a human hair, so easier said than done but far simpler than expected.
Such material can harvest the electricity generated by microscopic water droplets in humid air, according to a team led by engineer Xiaomeng Liu of the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
They have called their discovery the "generic Air-gen effect".
"The air contains an enormous amount of electricity," says engineer Jun Yao of UMass Amherst.
"Think of a cloud, which is nothing more than a mass of water droplets. Each of those droplets contains a charge, and when conditions are right, the cloud can produce a lightning bolt – but we don't know how to reliably capture electricity from lightning. What we've done is to create a human-built, small-scale cloud that produces electricity for us predictably and continuously so that we can harvest it."
https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-find-a-way-to-harvest-clean-energy-from-nothing-but-air
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Scientists Find a Way to Harvest Clean Energy From Nothing But Air
"The air contains an enormous amount of electricity."
🇩🇪🇨🇳 Berlin calls on China to stop enlisting former German military pilots.
German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius on Saturday called on China to stop enlisting former German military pilots for the training of its own forces.
He added the Chinese defence minister had not denied the practice of hiring former German military pilots, but played down its significance.
German security officials consider it highly likely that the pilots have been passing on expert military knowledge, such as the secret operational tactics of German forces and NATO.
They may have even exercised attack scenarios that China may find useful for an offensive on Taiwan, Spiegel said, citing the security officials.
🔗 https://www.reuters.com/world/berlin-calls-china-stop-enlisting-former-german-military-pilots-2023-06-03/
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German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius on Saturday called on China to stop enlisting former German military pilots for the training of its own forces.
He added the Chinese defence minister had not denied the practice of hiring former German military pilots, but played down its significance.
German security officials consider it highly likely that the pilots have been passing on expert military knowledge, such as the secret operational tactics of German forces and NATO.
They may have even exercised attack scenarios that China may find useful for an offensive on Taiwan, Spiegel said, citing the security officials.
🔗 https://www.reuters.com/world/berlin-calls-china-stop-enlisting-former-german-military-pilots-2023-06-03/
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Berlin calls on China to stop enlisting former German military pilots
German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius on Saturday called on China to stop enlisting former German military pilots for the training of its own forces.
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🇻🇦 ❌️ 🏳️🌈 Ohio Church kicks out LGBTQ member
📝 "Everybody wants to have opinions…
Until an actual demon shows up. Then you need a Catholic priest to cast them out. Looks mundane…
Don’t kid yourself." - Robert Morgan
📎 Robert Morgan
📝 "Everybody wants to have opinions…
Until an actual demon shows up. Then you need a Catholic priest to cast them out. Looks mundane…
Don’t kid yourself." - Robert Morgan
📎 Robert Morgan
Forwarded from 🏴☠️R. Augustine Sánchez
🏴☠️⚡— California Patriots putting in work, as usual.
Just as I said the other day, when the Right takes the gloves off and acts like the Left, we crush them every time. I would like to explain why Nationalists in leftist states like California are so effective by giving a personal anecdote of my experience coming of age in contested territory.
I would first like to thank those Leftists who taught me about the effectiveness of force and shattered my illusions forever about the true nature of democracy. It was they who drew first blood in 2015.
I remember that day well. I was 16 years old, and my father and I went to the Trump rally in Costa Mesa. As the sun set, the local Mexicans showed up, the dark smoke of burning tires billowed, and the police lost control. I watched a White man stumbling to an ambulance with his face broken, scarlet blood pouring down his neck and drenching his shirt. I could do nothing.
Two years later, however, I learned a different lesson-- while the Left showed me violence, in San Bernardino, the Right showed me that we're better at it. I remember that day well too-- the standoff at the intersection, the screams of the Reds as we broke them, chasing them like rabbits back to their cars, the sound of sirens and shattering glass, the feeling of hard fist meeting soft flesh, the feeling of victory. As I lay with my face in the dirt with the cop's knee on my back and cuffs tight around my wrists, I couldn't help but laugh.
That day, I knew we were going to win.
🏴☠️
https://teleg.eu/culturewarcriminal/3231
@CultureWarCriminal
Just as I said the other day, when the Right takes the gloves off and acts like the Left, we crush them every time. I would like to explain why Nationalists in leftist states like California are so effective by giving a personal anecdote of my experience coming of age in contested territory.
I would first like to thank those Leftists who taught me about the effectiveness of force and shattered my illusions forever about the true nature of democracy. It was they who drew first blood in 2015.
I remember that day well. I was 16 years old, and my father and I went to the Trump rally in Costa Mesa. As the sun set, the local Mexicans showed up, the dark smoke of burning tires billowed, and the police lost control. I watched a White man stumbling to an ambulance with his face broken, scarlet blood pouring down his neck and drenching his shirt. I could do nothing.
Two years later, however, I learned a different lesson-- while the Left showed me violence, in San Bernardino, the Right showed me that we're better at it. I remember that day well too-- the standoff at the intersection, the screams of the Reds as we broke them, chasing them like rabbits back to their cars, the sound of sirens and shattering glass, the feeling of hard fist meeting soft flesh, the feeling of victory. As I lay with my face in the dirt with the cop's knee on my back and cuffs tight around my wrists, I couldn't help but laugh.
That day, I knew we were going to win.
https://teleg.eu/culturewarcriminal/3231
@CultureWarCriminal
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🇵🇱 🇷🇺 The Polish Volunteer Corps has released footage of their contributions to the cross-border raid into the Belgorod region of Russia last week.
The Poles are working together with the Russian Volunteer Corps.
📎 Visegrád24
The Poles are working together with the Russian Volunteer Corps.
📎 Visegrád24
🇵🇱 🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Official statement of the RDK regarding the fighters of the Polish Volunteer Corps (PDK).
"Our comrades-in-arms from Poland have indeed been fighting with us shoulder to shoulder for the freedom and independence of Ukraine for several months. We have already managed to jointly carry out a number of operations in the Orekhovsky and Zaporozhye and Bakhmut areas. The guys showed themselves perfectly and showed a high level of motivation and preparation.
As for the hostilities on the territory of the Russian Federation, the PDK fighters provide a convoy of prisoners, military and medical logistics, but only within the state border of Ukraine. Despite such restrictions, we still sincerely thank them for their invaluable contribution to the common cause and always include them in our planning and share our trophies with them.
The RDK fighters are sincerely grateful to the people of Poland for their brave warriors in this war!"
https://teleg.eu/russvolcorps/583
"Our comrades-in-arms from Poland have indeed been fighting with us shoulder to shoulder for the freedom and independence of Ukraine for several months. We have already managed to jointly carry out a number of operations in the Orekhovsky and Zaporozhye and Bakhmut areas. The guys showed themselves perfectly and showed a high level of motivation and preparation.
As for the hostilities on the territory of the Russian Federation, the PDK fighters provide a convoy of prisoners, military and medical logistics, but only within the state border of Ukraine. Despite such restrictions, we still sincerely thank them for their invaluable contribution to the common cause and always include them in our planning and share our trophies with them.
The RDK fighters are sincerely grateful to the people of Poland for their brave warriors in this war!"
https://teleg.eu/russvolcorps/583
🇷🇺 Prigozhin was asked if Wagner would come to protect the Belgorod region recently. His response:
"Once again, while we are all concentrated in the rear zones, if the MoD in the near future does not stop what is happening in the Belgorod region, does not stop the unrest that is taking in the territory of Russia, then, of course, we will come to the Belgorod region and protect our Russian people, all those who live there, Russians, Dagestanis, Chechens, anyone, ethnic Ukrainians included.
And we will not wait for someone's invitation and ask whether we can or not.
The only thing is that we will need ammunition, because it is useless to come without it, as they say, with a naked ass in the cold."
📎 Trollstoy88
"Once again, while we are all concentrated in the rear zones, if the MoD in the near future does not stop what is happening in the Belgorod region, does not stop the unrest that is taking in the territory of Russia, then, of course, we will come to the Belgorod region and protect our Russian people, all those who live there, Russians, Dagestanis, Chechens, anyone, ethnic Ukrainians included.
And we will not wait for someone's invitation and ask whether we can or not.
The only thing is that we will need ammunition, because it is useless to come without it, as they say, with a naked ass in the cold."
📎 Trollstoy88
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⬜️ 🟦 🇷🇺 🇺🇦 White Rex (Denis Nikitin) responded to an emotional statement by Wagner's Yevgeny Prigozhin, who accused Defense Ministry officials of not defending Moscow. “I stand in solidarity with Yevgeny Prigozhin in his righteous anger,” the commander of…
🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Prigozhin answered the call of the RVC to Gladkov.
“Denis (Denis Kapustin, head of the RVC), if no one comes to the designated place for the prisoners, I am ready to send one of my high-ranking deputies to pick them up,” he said.
According to Prigozhin, if Zelensky comes to a meeting at a border temple in the Belgorod region, he is ready to come himself.
Translation by Russia Tomorrow
“Denis (Denis Kapustin, head of the RVC), if no one comes to the designated place for the prisoners, I am ready to send one of my high-ranking deputies to pick them up,” he said.
According to Prigozhin, if Zelensky comes to a meeting at a border temple in the Belgorod region, he is ready to come himself.
Translation by Russia Tomorrow
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#1750 Обращение Евгения Пригожина к Денису Никитину:
«Денис, если никто не приедет в обозначенное место за пленными, готов прислать одного из своих высокопоставленных заместителей для того, чтобы их забрать. Если приедет в это место Владимир Александрович…
«Денис, если никто не приедет в обозначенное место за пленными, готов прислать одного из своих высокопоставленных заместителей для того, чтобы их забрать. Если приедет в это место Владимир Александрович…
🇵🇱 🇷🇺 A Polish Star 1466 truck can be seen in this Freedom of Russia Legion video
https://telesco.pe/legionoffreedom/827
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