Footsteps into electricty: Triboelectric generators capture world’s wasted power

Wednesday, December 11, 2013 - 09:00 in Physics & Chemistry

With one stomp of his foot, Zhong Lin Wang illuminates a thousand LED bulbs – with no batteries or power cord. The current comes from essentially the same source as that tiny spark that jumps...

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