Georgia Tech has created an energy harvester powered by the static electricity produced when two dissimilar materials are brought together and separated – think balloons and woolly jumpers – plus an ...

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 familiar phenomenon has puzzled researchers for centuries, but experiments are finally making sense of its unruly ...

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A century after Nikola Tesla sketched a turbine with no blades, researchers are now using that same counterintuitive design to pull useful power out of static electricity. The latest experiments pair ...