| A simple circuit can be
built with a few capacitors and diodes to extract a
minimal voltage (electricity) from thin air! I was able to harvest a maximum voltage of 0.41 mV with this circuit. |
 Image © Michelle Hicks |
| Link to a video explaining the components
used and the build process. Note that you have to ground
your circuit appropriately; that is not clearly stated in the video! Also, my build was slightly different in that I used a parallel combination of 0.1 µF capacitors as you can see from the image. |
Video: How to Build and Proof of Concept |
| A simple look at how it
works: Electromagnetic
Energy All Around Us |
| Some other cool sites harvesting energy
in strange and cool ways: Walking
around uses a lot of energy! |
| Nanotechnology,
Who knew? NanoBuck?
Texas Instruments (TI) may have a solution! |