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Future Cars May Work with an Evaporating Water-Powered Engines – Video

Do you see that little guy with a grin on his face, sitting in the corner? He’s waving goodbye and wears shorts with a green tree logo. You know who he is? He's the green Grim Reaper, waiting to take our beloved V8 off the market and replace it with EVs. It’s happening people; there’s not much we can do about it. There’s a good part of it though: new mind-blowing techniques of producing renewable energy are being discovered.
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Photo: Columbia University
As car people, we tend to associate the word renewable with boring around here. Not that we have no care for the environment, but let’s face it, there’s nothing like revving a Lamborghini Huracan in the middle of a deserted road. Or is there?

No. No. No, we’re not taking that path. We’ll leave that endless argument for those who like playing the devil’s advocate. However, we want to steal a couple of minutes of your time to discuss what a team of researchers at the Columbia University have discovered.

In just a couple of words, the scientists have figured out a way to turn some spores' ability to react to moisture into energy. There’s a bigger, more detailed article they published in Nature about a week ago, but we reckon you want to watch the video first to get a proper grip on it.

Apparently, they created simple devices made of bacterial spores, glue, and plastic that seem to allow the capture of energy from evaporating water. The contents of what is presented in the summary below are based on the publication “Scaling up nanoscale water-driven energy conversion into evaporation-driven engines and generators.” Sounds a bit NASA-like, doesn’t it?

We can tell you this much if this new method proves to be a sustainable way to harvest green energy we may be looking at the thing that will power mankind’s means of transportation in the future.

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