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billbr
·3년 전·discuss
Placing the rain power panel under a waterfall might generate a useful amount of energy, eventually. The key feature is some sort of vertical conductive channel that gets the charges away from each other quickly. Maybe the idea is that if they can produce power in a worst case, they can improve solar panel efficiency in low light condition. Anyway, it sounds like useful research that got into the hands of the marketing department. Lost in several layers of translation ?
billbr
·3년 전·discuss
It may be on some level a culture issue. Grand announcements in unreproducible results are more common in societies with a profound respect for learning. Think Dr. Pangloss …