Plant-e: living plants generate electricity 

I guess now we're going to have plant-e of power...

I wish they would just open source it or explain how they do it. This could be incredible technology in the short term future.

OMG...you need to connect with FARMERS!! Imagine how we could solve 2 problems in one!! Energy and FOOD!!

While I think this is incredibly cool, and has a lot of potential, I was a little turned off by the claim in the beginning that people in areas without ready sources of electricity are denied the ability to communicate or participate in global community. After having gone through a Permaculture Design Course with Kenyans, I learned quite a bit about how modernization and what is referred to as 'development' actually can destroy the intimacy of interdependent communities, and take communities out of relationship and sustainable knowledge of their land and resources. Something to think about if ever making a video intended to be a marketing device, and something to think about when wanting to create a technology intended to be marketed globally.

this feels like a fake commercial from a movie where technology takes over the world, and this is the first step

hi sir, we would like to know what materials or components did you use in making this project.. how did you set up the plants and the other components to generate electricity. I am a student from Bohol Island State University, Philippines and we are conducting this kind of research.

nice, i hoop this gets somewhere it woud be nice to know my power came from a flower garden :D Keep doing your research !!!!!!

some ppl gonna hate this idea

Yeah!! This is a great innovation. I respect you guys!!

great idea. how much power does this produce? plus you still gotta water this and keep the plants healthy.

I think a more applicable approach would utilize this methodology as part of a larger multidisciplinary combination, incorporating wind oscillating piezoelectric vanes, conventional solar, and chemical transition energy recapturing (think pH transitions). And many, many more. Utilizing many different ways to generate electricity provides more system reliabity. As an aside, electrode placement involved with this method has another benefit. Sensing real-time soil conditions...

This is gonna be fucking huge! I would love to invest in this startup if possible :)

Doe, have to say, 15 square meters for a cell-phone baterry charge isnt much. How much electrode and wiring material is needed for a hectar, how long theyre last in the plant water (potentional oxidizing environment) and how would you need to modify the grid-connection ?

hmmm does this mean that a plantscaped aquarium can produce electricty too?

I like the idea, but I wouldn't exactly call it sustainable. You would need ALOT of space for just one person's average amount of energy use.

can i put it on my roof and how?

What do you use for anode and cathode and connect to roots?

I am doing an experiment on which houseplants produce electrictity the best, do you think you can tell me some plants that produce elctricty very well? Maybe some plants that can help light a light bulb?

Have there been any studies on how the available electrons in the soil is already being used by natural soil conditions?

What type of electrodes is better to use.....?

I am doing an experiment on which houseplants produce electrictity the best, do you think you can tell me some plants that produce elctricty very well? Maybe some plants that can help lightma light bulb?

Thanks for sharing. I spoke on microbial solar cells this week. One thing I was curious about, with vertical plant-mfc and sediment-mfcs, What is preventing dissolved oxygen from short-circuiting the anodic area. As I understand it, the plants extrude oxygen as well as organic matter through their roots. Is there still some kind of proton exchange membrane in place?

Can we generate electricity in a hydroponic system

What do you think about composting process of natural ingredients in this soil? It releases a lot of energy, biochemical processes and temperatures around 70+ C Degrees, which could speed up the process

Cost per watt?

What are the material for electrode

I see a lot of things on soil creating electricity. Does a pot of soil with a plant in it produce more electricity? Since the plant is providing the bacteria with more “fuel” to break down!

Sounds too good to be true, I call shenanigans....

Frage: Was ist denn mit der chemischen Umwandlung in der Anode und Kathode? Enstehen dabei nicht auf die Dauer giftige Abfallstoffe, die dann von der Pflanze aufgenommen werden? Als Beispiel die Apfelbatterie: Durch die Säure im Apfel wird ja die Spannung erzeugt. Dabei rostet aber das Metall von Anode und Kathode. Das kann doch nicht gut sein, wenn wir anschließend die Pflanzen ernten und essen. Wie wollt ihr das Problem lösen? Es gibt ja auch Erdbatterien, da werden Anode und Kathode einfach in die Erde gesteckt. Aber auch hier wieder das selbe Problem. Das Metall korrodiert und anschließend ist es nicht nur weg, es hat sich aufgelöst und die Rückstände sind teilweise giftig. Verwandeln wir dann nicht unsere Nahrungsmittelgrundlagen zu Schwermetall Lagerstätten?

One last thing, soils themselves are very low amp, low watt generators and batteries. The introduction of particulate, non-toxic capacitive materials could amplify the power generated by this method with a large enough dispersal structure. It would benefit the plant as well; think perlite...

i think this should be approved by uno and replace hydroelectric projects with rice fields

The energy density of this technology may be very small. Especially, we can NOT use this technology on winter.

is necessary so much water?

Where did this company go?? I was literally 5 years old when this video was released..

how you can tell this energy is generated from plant not from capacitive action of soil as the electrode and soil act as capacitor and wet soil is good dielectric

Sir, what are the materials required to do this,?

I had what I thought was a revelation on my way home... I guess people are way ahead of me haha

Don't say that stuff out loud, man. This dude will take your curiosity and get rich off it.

I have done this experiment in my school days but I got only 0.5V , Which elements are used as cathode and anode. How can we increase the voltage.

It seems to be some kind of a mud cell battery...just 2 carbon electrodes one closer to the top of the plant and one down at the root and the water and soil is the electrolyte... I will try top experiment with this also but probably the power output is not very high, so you need lots of area to get a higher output this way... Anyway, it is a start...maybe it can be scaled up by using the right plants ??

How mucch watts can be generated?

2-3 bosor age shiksi r koto shikmu kon to dehi

can a mushrooms do the job to break the organic metal? I just wonder.., if mushrooms are reach in nickel and also has chromium that are main element responsible for a bulb to emit light... is it possible for a mushroom or other plants reach in nickel and chromium to glow with that process?

What he kept near the plants

Very Nice

excellent!

based on what she said, the energy density of this is roughly 0.66Watt/square meter how the hell do you power half a households energy need with that?

The second person is even more recognisable.

Flower Power!

hi there.i put water in a flower pot and copper and zinc screw i did get some readin of .500 volts i put some more water in the pot and the voltage started to climb to .611 voltsits a small voltage and i didnt have an led to try on it but i got some readings is that voltage ok

Sir what is membrane

Is the technology scale-able? Say.. Trees or a whole forest? Can you imagine replanting a forest and calling it an energy system?

Hallelujah!

I'm a senior highschool student and I am also planning on making a scientific research about this kind of topic.

Why would plants kick uot sugar when the plants can use it

15 square yards= charged cell phone?!?!?!?....... well it's a start

I hope it is true as I am considering to test the experiment

What more if the research was focused on by all country. And the amount of sunlight is intense like in countries near the equator

Plants uses the most effecient solar energy storage, that's why I like to eat them... 😁... I just let my stomach do the energy consumption... 😁

This along with wind and solar should have been the route taken instead we continue to poison ourselves.

This Video From 2011 Why Haven’t I Seen Plant Roofs Already In 2020

Oh wow... and they thought I was crazy when I told them that a plant played with my hand (see my videos) Im glad somebody on this planet knows the real truth and why that I have been laughed at and ran out of my own home and out of state with my 5 year old and the clothes onj our back...keep us updared

what is this bacteria and where can i get it?

You might as well make a startup off potato batteries.

Movement, especially jumping induces electrical current by polarization. The moving things are living. Negative charge moves into the living organism and positive charge is reduced. That shift in polarization sends a neutralized current through the positive side of every particle in the universe. Every electron is connected to the air. The current produced by movement goes into that Earth and out at the other end of totality and exponential increase. Conducting organic current, also invites a surge on the return path. That return surge causes global warming; as the fire ball attempts long distance reentry. Since positive charge goes beyond the negative charge count, in size, there is also a big freeze invite, cooling the earth electrically. Cold magnetism has lightnings and moons; that far precede the actual high current ice ball. Jumping beans are the wave buffer. cJT

Why do they feel the need to big up their pie chart portions?

this beat is fucking rad

no prob , if its a rice field.

Let plug my pc into a sunflower

the e-kaia is similar??

its all about the ph

what do you mean??

Zygote the best

You think we will deplete the most abundant resource on the planet?

Just add some geobacter metallireducens or geobacter sulfurrireducens bacteria.

Mera project hai tree se electricity make karna.

15 square meters to charge a smartphone?

OH NO NO

wow 15 square yards... why don't i just plant a apple tree or some potatos?

So friggin cool!!

and water... lets deplete earths water.

I bet the first person talking is dutch :D

I made it by myself. I used Avasva solutions for that.

Certainly an exciting idea.

Hello. Whats the power by square meter? how is the return on investment (EROI)? everything is in the smog in this concept. You should be more clear and tell this things to people . I think this is a gadget for rich people. Who subsides this theory?

While you guys go and dream on your plant electricity, ill wait for the nuclear fusion reactor to become even more of a efficiency success after the 500 megawatts of output power while only 50 megawatts is invested achievement. ITER. International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor in France. Latin for '' The way '' ... Literally its the way ;)

Doe's this guy know what a comb is??

I made it by myself. I used inplix scripts for that.

Hey Guys, I live you Work🫵

pity the robotic approach

Wow... Just, wow...

Surely, this is a spoof?

I feels like a joke or a fake movie

I love this ❤️

Grow food crops not grass ...

the technology has nothing to do with plants, it is simply an electron capture device. just connect the electrodes to the sky and you have free electricity like tesla. or help the bacteria they use to evolve into 1 man sized bacteria per city to break down unwanted waste into electrons. ?

close your eyes man

Governments will want to suppress this or charge the hell out of the people for it. Also using hemp would make tons more electricity.. hahaha

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