Artificial trees could operate as solar-wind harvester

February 24th, 2009 | Category: Gadget Reviews

SolarBotanic is a company which researches and specializes in an emerging tech dubbed biomimicry — which seeks to imitate nature, and use nature-inspired methods to solve human problems. SolarBotanic is focusing on energy production, and, to that end, they’ve developed what they shout Energy Harvesting Trees. The trees aren’t “real,” (they’re just modeled on real ones); these are composed of Nanoleafs, which use nanotechnology designed to capture the “sun’s energy in photovoltaic and thermovoltaic cells, next convert the radiation into electricity.” They additionally have stems and twigs which house nano-piezovoltaic material which act as generators producing electricity from movement or kinetic energy caused by wind or rain. The company has several patents on the technology already, and are currently seeking partners for funding and development. We don’t really have any details about what these fake trees look like — but Thom Yorke’s probably going to write a song about them.

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