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Great question, but I don't know the answer. At this point, I'm fairly certain this is still in the R&D stage. You just don't know if it will work. I just skimmed the UCLA article, but they were doing somethign with this on the bottom of a shoe. I don't know if that was just to measure steps taken or if they could use the power to heat the shoes (which would be a cool application).That's neat if it produces meaningful amounts of power. I imagine it stops after a certain height of snowfall?
How can you know??This will never produce any meaningful amount of electricity. Still it's a cool idea...
How can you know??
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This will never produce any meaningful amount of electricity. Still it's a cool idea...
It does in nature. Have you ever seen lightning during a snow or dust storm? I have. I think the problem will be to figure out a way to store the energy.
That is the problem with almost all alternative generation methods. About 10 miles from where I live there is a small mountain with a reservoir on top. During the day they use solar panels to pump water from the nearby river up the mountain and at night they use that water to turn generators and return the water to the river. It's been in use for almost 50 years. In the old days they used the extra power from a now deactivated nuke plant to pump the water up. I'm surprised they don't invest in more of that sort of technology for grid energy storage.
Edit :I guess they don't use the solar panels to pump the water because it says they generate during the daytime and refill at night.
Duke Energy?