This new device is designed to generate electricity from the Earth’s rotation

This new device is designed to generate electricity from the Earth’s rotation

In a world chasing cleaner energy, a group of physicists may have uncovered a surprising new way to make power: by tapping into the Earth’s own rotation. That’s right, researchers at Princeton University have finally shown that passive electricity generation might be more than just theory. This new experiment, recently highlighted in Physical Review Research, demonstrates that a specially designed device can produce a continuous, measurable volt…

Report: Scientists Create Device That Generates Electricity From Earth's Rotation

PRINCETON, N.J. – Scientists from Princeton University and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) have invented a device that seemingly generates electricity from the Earth’s rotation. Although generally accepted theories show that generating electricity from a uniform field like Earth’s magnetic field is impossible, the team believes they have found a “loophole” that allows their device to generate tiny but measurable amounts of electricity. If…

Scientists May Have Discovered How To Extract Power From the Earth's Rotation

Long-time Slashdot reader Baron_Yam writes: No more burning fossil fuels, playing with fissile material, damming rivers, erecting wind mills, or making solar panels. All of our energy needs could potentially be supplied by the angular kinetic energy of the Earth - and because of the mass of the planet, doing so would slow its rotation down by a mere 7ms per century. [Which is similar to speed changes caused by natural phenomena such as the Moon'…

Researcher Chris Chyba, from Princeton University, built a hollow magnetic cylinder to generate electricity using the Earth's magnetic field. The cylinder does not move, but rotates with the planet and is therefore pulled by the Earth's magnetic field.