Electrical Circuit Runs Entirely Off Power in Trees

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devo of DC 12:40PM April 19, 2010

No doubt, no one will bother to find out if this is hurting the trees or not before we kill a few hundred thousand of them.

Ron M. of NM 12:29AM September 15, 2009

I think this is an amazing wonderful thing. Who knows this could be the beginning of creating some mini tech. microchip for solar panels, or micro tech. creation with other living growing things. It reminds me of when I would go camping and hiking and how I would survive days without TV, radio, or other sorces of entertainment. I would just feel good, and enjoy being in the presance of the amazing nature around me. Maybe they give off more than electricity, maybe the life and growing of nature does some sort of healing and cleansing too.
To the potato sciece coment...
How many trees fit on an mile of land? maybe 6000?

Nina Platter of WA 8:51PM September 13, 2009

Perhaps those who question what good the research is should provide should consider where the next great invention may come from. No new knowledge can be gained, nor new products, or ways of doing things developed without this type of innovative research. I'm sure someone once questioned what could possibly be done with silicone--not anymore. Don't be so quick to criticize, the next great idea may spring from this research.

Ken of KS 5:17AM September 13, 2009

I wonder how many millivolts a Sequoia tree would provide..

brian of CA 5:00AM September 13, 2009

This is no more of novel process than when my children made a battery out of a potato.
What good is it? 600 trees could produce 120 volts, but current capacity? It would probably take a forest of those 600 tree batteries to run a light bulb.

Sternberg of SC 8:11PM September 12, 2009

The article was very interesting, and the comments hilarious! Keep up the research!!

Edna of IL 11:21PM September 10, 2009

What would happen if you fed a small voltage into the tree at the same point where you measured the voltage in your experiment?
Is this effect you found associated with one of the tree tropisms?
Are the trees communicating with each other? One experiment to find out is to introduce a modulating voltage in one tree and then monitor another tree close by.

Robert L. Matarainen of NY 4:17PM September 10, 2009

Beware the PETT&V, "People for the Ethical Treatment of Trees and Vegetables".
How do you sleep at night knowing you stabbed a tree in its heartwood?
What kind of fiend are you who rips an apple away from its mother tree and then savagely tears it to shreds with your teeth!
Vicious vegetarians and vegans! How can you just stand by while the life fluids of that tomato drain on to your plate? Have you no feelings?

David of AZ 2:03PM September 10, 2009

Has anybody considered what effect this might have on the tree?? Is it possible that this is siphoning off some life force? Could this technology ultimately deplete or exhaust a tree? At what point would this interference in a living organism's energy system actually kill said organism?
On the surface, it's a cool idea to think we could also draw electricity off of trees, along with all of the other benefits that they gift us with. But this strikes me as one more stressor.

mrbingbang of NY 1:09PM September 10, 2009