'Dielectric Elastomer Generators' could rival traditional off-shore wave power

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2 pointsdetritus4 comments

Also: https://www.ed.ac.uk/news/2019/device-could-deliver-wave-ene...

"The device costs less than conventional designs, has fewer moving parts, and is made of durable materials. The "design could be used in fleets of low-cost, easily maintained structures at sea within decades, to take advantage of powerful waves".

and could probably be incorporated into seawalls, and seaport pileings, rather than occupying beaches and other aesthetic locations.

This sort of thing in homologue could also be used to harvest the energy of brownian motion, and perhaps even RMS velocity of gas phase matter:

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/427140/graphene-battery-t...

so far ive not seen anything thats will couple with quantum vacuum [zero point energy] that is purported to exist.

Anything that doesn't rely on the boiling of water's fine by me!

no boiling required just something beyond absolute zero, of course, higher temperature means more heat content so more collision per second, and more wattage. a steaming cup of coffee could be used to provide a small electrical current, even room temperature water as well

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