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Re:Engineers Harvest Clean, Continuous Energy from Air by deegles on Thursday December 14, 2023 @12:55PM (#38644545)
The paper just says "an estimated energy density of >1 kW/m^2"
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Re:Engineers Harvest Clean, Continuous Energy from Air by pdonis on Thursday December 14, 2023 @01:35PM (#38645165)
"Energy density" is a misnomer, it should be power density, since the kW is a unit of power (rate of energy generation), not energy.
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Re:Engineers Harvest Clean, Continuous Energy from Air by amelius on Thursday December 14, 2023 @01:21PM (#38644973)
That's quite an amount, about 3-5x the amount of energy generated by solar cells of the same surface area. It would mean the device would generate $2000-$4000 on a yearly basis.
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Re:Engineers Harvest Clean, Continuous Energy from Air by Phenomenit on Thursday December 14, 2023 @01:29PM (#38645100)
Didn’t it say cubic meter, not square?
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