METHOD FOR ELECTRIFYING MATERIALS AND STORING ELECTRIC CHARGES IN MATERIALS BY WATER ADSORPTION/DESORPTION, AND MATERIAL ELECTRIFIED BY THIS METHOD
The present invention relates to a method for generating, producing or capturing electricity, characterised in that metals and isolating materials are electrified by being subjected to variations in the relative humidity of the ambient atmosphere, or exposed to water in the liquid state or wet materials, in any form known in the prior art. The invention also encompasses the materials electrified as a result of variations in humidity to which they are exposed, or of their degree of wetness, these variations being produced in any form already described in the prior art. Changes in ambient humidity or degree of wetness cause the electrification of solid metallic and isolating materials in the form of monoliths, plates, sheets, films, fabrics, webs and threads, enabling the subsequent transfer, storage and use of the electric charge in forms known in the prior art. The same method can be applied to liquids, in any known form. The method described in this invention makes it possible to capture atmospheric electricity, which is an extremely important technological achievement that has been the subject of much research, until now without any viable technological solution. The unprecedented character of the present invention is ensured by the originality of the phenomena for generating, producing or capturing electricity, and by the absence or any precedent similar or analogous to the method or products described.