As President Trump tries to strangle wind projects in the US, nine European countries have signed a deal to build a vast offshore wind farm in the North Sea, the epicenter of the continent’s oil and gas industry
I wonder if you could make a grid in 3 dimensions that could harvest energy as the nodes change position relative to each other, almost like a piezoelectric system on a macro scale
edit: i’m kinda stoned so the ideas are flowing freely lol
I was actually thinking about something like that recently. I read a book by Peter Hamilton that had biomechanoid space ships incubating in jovian orbit because of the radiation, and then the other day there was an article somewhere about (potentially) radiotrophic fungi in the chernobyl exclusion zone and I was thinking you could line a spacecraft/station with that stuff. I guess it’s no surprise that melanin is just stupid good at absorbing ionizing radiation since that’s what is has evolved to do
I wonder if you could make a grid in 3 dimensions that could harvest energy as the nodes change position relative to each other, almost like a piezoelectric system on a macro scale edit: i’m kinda stoned so the ideas are flowing freely lol
Not on earth, but there are certain orbits of Jupiter where it would work like gangbusters!
I was actually thinking about something like that recently. I read a book by Peter Hamilton that had biomechanoid space ships incubating in jovian orbit because of the radiation, and then the other day there was an article somewhere about (potentially) radiotrophic fungi in the chernobyl exclusion zone and I was thinking you could line a spacecraft/station with that stuff. I guess it’s no surprise that melanin is just stupid good at absorbing ionizing radiation since that’s what is has evolved to do