New Method To Generate Electricity from Water

spaceling writes "The BBC reports reporting on research published in the Institute of Physics Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering of the first new method of generating electricity in over 150 years. Larry Kostiuk and Daniel Kwok 'created a glass block, two centimetres in diameter and three millimetres thick, containing about 400,000 to 500,000 individual channels...[and] generated about 10 volts with a current of around a milliamp. This allowed the team to successfully power a lightbulb.'" This has also been covered all over the place.

Comments

Re:Liquid flow...

[Anonymous Coward]

So now the bitch in the Volvo putting on eyeliner and talking on the phone will have something else to distract her as she runs me off the road.

Re:So now we end up fighting wars over water?

[orthogonal]

Iraq is blessed with an abundant supply of water, so much so in fact that some had speculated we did not go there for the oil as much as the water.

Who in hell speculated we went to Iraq for their water??

The Fremen High Council?

Are the Bene Gesserit speculating we went there for the Spice or the Sandworms too?