Simple new engine sucks power from the night sky
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What if you could draw energy from the night sky without effort? That's the question that researchers at the University of California, Davis are trying to answer with a new engine that generates power simply by sitting under the clear starry heavens.
Simple new engine sucks power from the night sky
Harness the energy of the cosmos! Learn how UC Davis engineers are using a modified Stirling engine and radiative cooling to generate passive, low-power electricity from the clear night sky.
New Atlas (newatlas.com)
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What if you could draw energy from the night sky without effort? That's the question that researchers at the University of California, Davis are trying to answer with a new engine that generates power simply by sitting under the clear starry heavens.
Simple new engine sucks power from the night sky
Harness the energy of the cosmos! Learn how UC Davis engineers are using a modified Stirling engine and radiative cooling to generate passive, low-power electricity from the clear night sky.
New Atlas (newatlas.com)
The upshot is that this arrangement allowed the engine to produce 400 milliwatts of power per square meter
Right.... And solar is 150-300 watts. While a neat poc it likely won't go anywhere.