interesting article

tomthetreeman

tomthetreeman

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Just read an article in Landscape Monthly about running low voltage landscape lighting off of trees. Pretty interesting info... Apparently trees with more acidic cambium can power 3 or 4 small, low voltage landscape lights or other garden features. The method involves making a small drill hole into the cambium with a copper or lead wire inserted, then attached to a very small power inverter, which the lights run off of. I can't believe no one thought of this before now!

-Tom
 
Strikes me as unnecessarily parasitic and invasive. Kinda like a tick sucking blood.

Just an opinion though!

jomoco
 
I would guess that the hole seals off soon and the 'tap' goes dry. Then...tap again...could be problematic.

interesting source of power...the ultimate green energy!
 
I would like to see a cross section of a tree that this has ben done with after it stops working. Just to see if you can see where the path of the power had traveled.
 
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April Fool, let us see ur article.

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There was an article posted here on TB some time ago about measuring electricity in trees.

This might be an April Fools 'article' but it is valid.
 
Sounds similar to the hard hat night lights that run off of the electrical impluses of the brain, similar to the wires used in EKG's.. Very interesting indeed that they are able to tap into the electro-chemical reation of nuerological synaptic transmission to get a source of power with enough horsepower to light a small filament bulb and then magnify that to a usable beacon.
I would guess that the minerals in the water flow when moving through the cambium cause enough friction to change the chemical composition of those minerals and the end result is a positively charge ION that has the ability generate an electrical impulse..

very interesting indeed.
 
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