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   'It was an accident': the scientists who have turned humid air into   
   renewable power   
   ...   
   ...   
   In May, a team at the University of Massachusetts (UMass) Amherst   
   published a paper declaring they had successfully generated a small   
   but continuous electric current from humidity in the air. It's a claim   
   that will probably raise a few eyebrows, and when the team made the   
   discovery that inspired this new research in 2018, it did.   
      
   "To be frank, it was an accident," says the study's lead author, Prof   
   Jun Yao. "We were actually interested in making a simple sensor for   
   humidity in the air. But for whatever reason, the student who was   
   working on that forgot to plug in the power."   
      
   https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/jul/02/it-was-an-accide   
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