Static electricity often just seems like an everyday annoyance when a wool sweater crackles as you pull it off, or when a doorknob delivers an unexpected zap. Regardless, the phenomenon is much more ...

One key to harvesting the ocean’s clean energy—at least a little of it—may lie in static electricity. A team of researchers in Portugal has now successfully used it to run small generators inside a ...

The inner cylinder is free to rotate, and when it moves relative to the outer cylinder, static electricity builds up and is collected by electrodes. The magnetic braking system takes slow wave ...

A research team affiliated with UNIST has introduced a technology that generates electricity from raindrops striking rooftops ...

So, I want to make a small hand-operated electric generator with my kids just to kind of show them how this kind of thing works. I understand the basics, but there are some things I want to do that I ...

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