Canadian scientists help design new device that creates electricity using snow
A person walks a dog as heavy snow falls in Vancouver, on Sunday, Feb.10, 2019. Environment Canada issued a snowfall warning for Metro Vancouver with 5 to 10 cm falling in the region beginning Sunday afternoon. Scientists from University of California, Los Angeles and McMaster University have invented a first-of-its-kind nanogenerator that can generate electricity using falling snow.
“You separate the charges and create electricity out of essentially nothing,” Richard Kaner, who holds UCLA’s Dr. Myung Ki Hong Endowed Chair in Materials Innovation, said in a“The device can work in remote areas because it provides its own power and does not need batteries,” he said, explaining that the device was 3D printed, flexible and inexpensive to make because of the low cost of silicone.
Integrating their device into solar panel arrays could produce a continuous power supply whenever it snows, study co-author and UCLA assistant researcher Maher El-Kady explained. The team said they also want to incorporate their device into weather sensors to help them better acquire and transmit electronic signals. They said several Toronto-based companies -- which they couldn’t name -- have expressed interest in partnering with them.
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