I love it when we come up with new ways to harness the energy we naturally produce. I hope they continue to develop this technology.
From the page: “The two fibers scrub together just like two bottle brushes with their bristles touching, and the piezoelectric-semiconductor process converts the mechanical motion into electrical energy,” says Zhong Lin Wang, a Regents professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. “Many of these devices could be put together to produce higher power output.”