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Teen Shows How to Turn Noise into Sustainable Electricity
A seventeen-year-old’s curiosity could change the future of energy production.
Climate change is scary, but it’s also fueling our species’ notorious innovation. We know now how destructive burning non-renewable fossil fuels and the resulting greenhouse gases are to our atmosphere, which spurs us to explore renewable energy sources instead.
After all, energy is everywhere — water, solar, wind, geothermal, hydroelectric — and there are boundless ways to harness it with new methods added constantly. In fact, it just so happens that a teenager in Louisiana hit upon a pretty fantastic sustainable energy option — converting sound vibrations into electric energy.
Current Standing
Global energy production comprises three components: transportation, heating, and electricity — but it’s the latter that we’ll be discussing today.
Currently, the world is overly reliant on non-renewable energy sources to generate electricity. In 2023, around 60 percent of global electricity was produced by fossil fuels. Coal was the most significant single contributor, at roughly 36 percent, followed by natural gas at 23 percent.
