It is articles like this that illustrate how vapid the media is and how gullible the general public is. The only saving grace is that is was Chinese money that was wasted on this project and not US money.
Sure, this is yet another small step forward to gaining dispersed, diversified, local energy sources.
Sorry it wasn't 'miraculous' enough for you. Better luck the next ten thousand steps on the thousand paths of our journey to try and salvage a future for humanity and the singular Living World, available for habitation.
From the paper--------"The increasing contact area between the imprinted PDMS and water drops greatly improves the output of the TENG with a peak short-circuit current of ∼33.0 nA and a peak open-circuit voltage of ∼2.14 "
So lets be generous and say it puts out 75 NANOwatts but not really since they are talking about open and short circuited conditions. Call it 35 nanowatt pulses at an unknown repetition rate. RRW even your greenwashed brain should be able to comprehend how miniscule that is.
As an example the static discharge you sometions get when walking on carpet is about 5 millijoules or roughly 100,000 x the power output of this device.
If Lisa Zyga, the reporter, had any sort of personal ethics she would forget what she was taught in journalism school about the end justifying the means and either refuse to publish the article or expose it for the fraud it is. As presented one would think that this was a real solution to a problem.
All you brilliant inventor types with your long list of registered patents and working prototypes and in-production devices...
Anyone??? {...crickets chirping...}
Hop into your time machines and go back to stop Thomas Edison pre-1878. Command him to cease and desist from continuing any farther with developing the incandescent-bulb to the point it would be ready for manufacture and public sale.
Cause you know so much better than he did. You won't put up with a thousand fails.
And while you've got him there, all those other inventions? Such as the kinetoscope, will be such obvious failures that he should just retire and go hang himself in shame.
Because he failed to meet your expectations.
The bastard!
Oh hey! While you are back there? Prevent the Wright brothers from learning to fix bicycles. So later, they won't be wasting tax money on foolish nonsense such as inventing airplanes.
Who'd ever heard of such an obvious fraudulent scheme?
Look RRW I am a big fan of basic research. Also I am sure that their skills in nanotechnology assembly will help mankind. I only ask that they present their findings in a truthful manner and not make grossly exaggerated claims.
Perhaps this is part of the issue. These might not be the researchers words but a university press release.
If all the university press consider that your submissions are "not-ready-for-prime time"? Perhaps you should reconsider whether or not you are accomplishing professional-level work?
Insisting that there is a mass conspiracy to deny your glory? In which case, prima-facie, you qualify as a crank.
An honest self-appraisal is in order.
Then, prove them all wrong!
By physically producing, at the minimum. A working prototype that utilizes your theories.
Not a manifesto describing what you cannot physically produce.
Not a hollybollyhonglywood F/X u-tubing video.
But an actually working device that your detractors can test for themselves.
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Mar 8, 2018