Comments on: Power from Trees

By: Dameion

Dameion — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:38:52 +0000

re: Reagan McGuire ..

Feel free to contact me regarding the above post. My email is dameionoreilly [AT] live.com

Cheers,

Dameion

By: Reagan McGuire

Reagan McGuire — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:20:46 +0000

I would be interested in talking to you Dameion.

By: dameion

dameion — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:46:46 +0000

Although this is very exciting that they can capture this minute amount of power from a tree … I’m left thinking with the old saying that they can’t see the forest for the trees. I have been trying to figure out a way to tap into a much more substantial amount of power from trees for the last decade but unfortunately lack the engineering background to do so. I am convinced however that with the right minds together in the same room …. a much much more substantial amount of power can be harvested from trees. Anyone with an interest in this sort of thing can feel free to contact me via email

By: Christian

Christian — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 10:56:47 +0000

Although I am amazed they’re getting into serious research that implies the idea of extracting electrical power from trees, there is already a major environmental problem with the technologies that Voltree Power and GreenPeak developed: they are using a mesh wireless network that goes through a living forest, instead instead of traditional copper cables, which would be a safer environmental choice.

And what’s the problem with Wireless? The radio signals used for wireless networks, due to their frequency have proven to be harmful to many living organisms, including bees, which play a key role in the natural cycles.

Hopefully is these “green” routers transmit at very low power, then this should not be such an issue I guess, but I wonder to what extent the researchers behind that system are aware of the potential danger of wireless communications for living organisms…

Electricity is all about sound frequency and chemical composition, but this mixture has got to be used VERY wisely, or it can become harmful. A microwave oven is a good, obvious example of that.

By: charles

charles — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 05:36:20 +0000

This is an interesting new energy source. Papaya tree is also a very good conductor. I have once used it a a very efficient TV/Radio aerial.

By: Kiser

Kiser — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:18:06 +0000

One of the cleanest types of energy I’ve ever heard of, but it sounds like you would need a lot of trees to produce enough power.

By: Tommy Tate

Tommy Tate — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:28:15 +0000

This is one of the most interesting things that I’ve ever read that is non-fictional and I hope that we will be able to use this for future gain in science and technology. Also that we will use this just as much as any other source of energy.