Excess power from plants

[markdansie]

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This one claims a lot of energy from a single plant, so its proberbly lost in translation.
If its possible its a great breakthrough but most likely a bust given past research in this field requiring over 100 square meters to get the same power output.


Good to see young people thinking out of the box


I see in the vido they are just plugging into the soil nearby the plant I am sure "Pirate" will have a lot to say about this.


http://revolution-green.com/new-e-kaia-technology-harvests-excess-energy-from-plants/



Kind Regards
Mark

[Paul-R]

Sounds like another "electrolytic in disguise" invention.

There is a more interesting development involving trees as some sort of aerial. I was going to chop down a nuisance tree in the garden and am having second thoughts.

[profitis]

All plants contain fuels known as fructose/galactose/mannitol/starch etc

[Pirate88179]

Charge your phone from your pot plant?[/font][/size]
This one claims a lot of energy from a single plant, so its proberbly lost in translation.
If its possible its a great breakthrough but most likely a bust given past research in this field requiring over 100 square meters to get the same power output.


Good to see young people thinking out of the box


I see in the vido they are just plugging into the soil nearby the plant I am sure "Pirate" will have a lot to say about this.


http://revolution-green.com/new-e-kaia-technology-harvests-excess-energy-from-plants/



Kind Regards
Mark

Finally, a Power Plant.

Sorry, I could not help myself.  But seriously, those electrodes in that device (whatever it is) are not very big and not far apart so, if they can charge a cell phone from it, they are doing better than my large earth battery which uses a huge carbon rod and a 5 pound block of magnesium spaced 20 ft. apart.  The best they could do using galvanic action alone would be about 1.7 volts at very low mA's.  I did note that the soil in most of the pots they were using looked pretty dry, which is the same soil conditions I get my best results with the E.B.

Maybe a decent sized supercap in that device, and a JT type circuit and what they don't tell us is that it has been charging up all night in the dirt and then, you stick it in a pot and it charges your phone.  My guess is that it would still charge that phone while sitting on the table in the open...but...i have no idea really.

Hopefully, we will find out more about this.  I can not see how those small plants do anything in the process as I can only get about 1 volt from a large tree. (With very, very low mA's)

Bill

[Pirate88179]

Sounds like another "electrolytic in disguise" invention.

There is a more interesting development involving trees as some sort of aerial. I was going to chop down a nuisance tree in the garden and am having second thoughts.

Paul:

Check your tree using a dmm set on dc volts.  Stab one probe into the tree and the other into the soil near the tree.  All of the trees here I have tried have a negative voltage of about 1 volt.  In other words, to get a positive reading on the DMM, I have to place the minus probe into the tree and the plus probe into the ground.  The ground is positive in this case and it really astounds me.  I have been trying for about 4 years now to get someone else to try this to see if all trees are negative, or just over here in my area.

Please try this and report you findings.

Thanks,

Bill