Hydrovoltaics for Green Energy Production - I2I Market Assessment

这项研究将是对一项新兴绿色能源技术的市场评估。想象一个利用热能的电源，同时不间断地发电，无论是白天还是黑夜，阳光还是黑暗，刮风还是完全平静。想象一下这样一种技术，它的制造非常简单，成本也非常低，而且几乎不需要维护。不再想象，水力发电就是这种技术。水含有令人难以置信的能量，足以满足全球年度能源需求的三倍以上。然而，这些能源中目前被利用的很少。近年来，科学家们证明了从自然水蒸发过程中获得持续能源是可能的。水伏设备可以克服与传统能源和可再生能源相关的许多限制。例如，太阳能电池占地面积很大，需要阳光才能发电。相反，水伏设备占地面积很小，可以在不同的天气条件下全天工作，产生与商业光伏相当的电力输出。在任何发生蒸发的地方，都可以使用水伏发电。水力发电设备通过蒸发和毛细作用驱动的简单水流产生持续的电力。TAS蒸发无处不在，持续不断，这种发电也是如此。这种简单化的发电意味着，这种设备可以用来在发电困难的地区供电。第一个水伏装置是在2017年报道的，所以这个领域是令人难以置信的新领域。自那以后，我们对设备进行了微调，并实现了高出三个数量级的功率输出。然而，虽然现在在功率输出方面具有竞争力(基于设备的相同占地面积)，但这并不是故事的结束；正在进行研究，以进一步提高功率输出，能够向电网产生大规模电力！

The research undertaken will be a market assessment of an emerging green energy technology. Imagine a power source that harnesses thermal energy, while generating power continuously, regardless of whether it is day or night, sunlight or dark, windy or perfectly calm. Imagine a technology that is incredibly simple and cheap to manufacture and requires little or no maintenance. Imagine no longer, hydrovoltaics is this technology. Water contains an incredible amount of energy, enough to meet the annual global energy demand three times over. Very little of this energy, however, is currently harnessed for use. In recent years, scientists have demonstrated that it is possible to obtain sustained energy from natural water evaporation processes.Hydrovoltaic devices can overcome many of the limitations associated with conventional and renewable energy sources. For example, solar cells have a large footprint and require sunlight to generate power. Conversely, hydrovoltaic devices take up very little area and can function in different weather conditions throughout the day to produce a comparable power output to commercial photovoltaics. Hydrovoltaics can be used to generate power anywhere evaporation is occurring. Hydrovoltaic devices generate sustained power by simple flow of water driven by evaporation and capillary action. TAs evaporation is ubiquitous and continuous, so to is this generation of power.This simplistic power generation means that such devices could be used to supply power in areas where power generation is difficult. The first hydrovoltaic device was reported in 2017, so the field is incredibly new. We have since fine-tuned devices and have achieved power outputs three orders of magnitude higher. However, while now competitive in power output (based on the same footprint of a device) this is not the end of the story; research is being conducted to improve the power output even further, able to generate large scale power into the grid!