Tree as a Battery

Vegetarian Matrix.

Why dont we use hamsters for power generation?

They should be able to charge up our mobile phones!

I guess it has been done and the need for Copper was greater than the output of the trees! And Copper is not good for trees.

Already been done, we've got hamsters powering tree(house)s:

(Sorry, can't find a screenshot of the Power Room)

Probably not.

This sounds like a great project for the UN.

Have you spoken to anyone in the organization in New York about this great idea?

Contact the United Nations

I know a former director, Who Flung Dung, quite well.

I suggest you contact him directly. PM me, I'll send you his number.

Now that Kulas is gone, somebody has to fill the vacuum.

It's a long shot, most metal that will stand up for a significant amount of time is too expensive for the meager return that has been experienced (~ 20 μW)....maybe a piezoelectric generator to capitalize on the wind forces on the trunks of the trees would yield better results....

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0136639

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0136639

http://www.piezo.com/prodproto4EHkit.html

Thanks for your valuable input. I got the idea after watching experiments with fruits like orange,lemon,lime,apple etc may be vegetables too can give voltage. By injecting certain inexpensive fluids into the tree trunks, or inserting electrodes in the direction of sunrise we might get more voltage.

As water is sucked by capillary action from bottom to top of trees electrodes planted at required depth into the tree bark at bottom and top should produce a voltage sufficient for electronics like cellphone charging,has anybody tried this?.

There ya go!

http://theconversation.com/how-we-found-out-there-are-three-trillion-trees-on-earth-47071

Just get started!

Hey, if you hook up enough trees (or lemons or potatoes) in a series-parallel configuration, you could get a fatal electric shock. Darwin wants you!

Still the fiendly friendly man we know! Will three billion trees be enough?

Trillion, if you reread it.

What to say! Your reply is just so predictable!

I am asking if 3 billion are enough and you come back and tell me to read it again!

Hahaha!

If you want to take them all just do so!

Ha! I got an off topic!

Did not think of that one!

we can charge our batteries.

I guess you have a choice: stick your batteries out in the weather, or run wires from the trees into your house. Don't you already have a means of charging your batteries?

If we develop technology vehicles could be charged inductively by parking under trees.

Not until you can get the decimal point to within three places of the correct position.

Brilliant idea!

You could also charge the battery by parking under lemons and under potatoes, and under seawater.

You just haven't got it, have you? It's the dissimilar metals that generate the electric potential. The tree/lemon/potato/seawater is providing the electrolyte that joins them together.

This is all primary school stuff.

This is usually what happens when you park under a tree!

That protruded bulk (no, its a bulge) on the tree puzzled me, I think, those car covering were not from bird left overs. The source must be near somewhere, the bulgy thing.

Holy crap!

OK. Why don't you study it yourself? It's simple enough.

Bang a copper rod and a zinc rod into the tree, measure the voltage. Switch to current and measure current. Note the numbers.

Remove the rods and instead of the tree, substitute a lemon. Repeat the measurements. Try again with a potato and with seawater

Now you need to explain why a tree, a lemon, a potato and seawater all give the same answers.

Got it?

Hah! "Bat tree" as it is pronounced in Cicero Illinois. "I didn't get to duh Bears game cause my bat tree was dead."

Well done..see you got the voltage right as well.

Gee, i have 2 lemons with a clock attached sitting on my desk that works. I would not try to weld with it.

Has anybody studied the possibility of planting electrodes of 2 different metals inside any tree and measured the voltage available?.
How can this be OT? Unless you are a little boy with an enlarged ego!

Probably an enlarged something else with no willing receptacle. Quintessential loser.

Mr. Potato Head says....

"Careful where you're puttin those PROBES sonny"!!!!

Typical lumberjack reply

It never did come to mind, that trees could start up a car.

I bet, we better ask these guys on how they managed to evade the fines.

Now you want to prevent tree hugging with all that apparatus? You Monster!