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A team of biomolecular engineers have come up with a new way to generate electricity from rainfall. Their method involves having rain flow through tiny tubes, and they claim that it can generate up to 100 Watts of electricity per square meter of tubes. Will this revolutionize renewable energy? Let’s find out.

Paper: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acscentsci.4c02110

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