Electricity from trees

[Ember]

hi friends, could you please explain how electricity can be generated from trees and :Glasses:,

[Turtle]

hi friends, could you please explain how electricity can be generated from trees and :hyper:,

 

himber. obviously we could chop them down and burn them to fuel a boiler to drive a turbine to drive a dynamo. less obvious is to keep them alive & treet them like a potato.

 

:Glasses:

 

Scientists Draw Electricity from Trees

Scientists Draw Electricity from Trees

 

University of Washington scientists have discovered a new source of electricity: Trees.

 

In an experiment that will seem familiar to students of the potato, the scientists stuck one electrode into a bigleaf maple, and another in the ground, and saw that the tree generated a tiny stream of electricity -- a few hundred millivolts. That's not enough electricity to do much ... but run a circuit and get published in the scientific journal Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers' Transactions on Nanotechnology.

(As of that potato, this experiment is different, the authors said: "The tree-power phenomenon is different from the popular potato or lemon experiment, in which two different metals react with the food to create an electric potential difference that causes a current to flow." The tree experiment uses the same metal for both electrodes.)

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