Science & Technology - Tuesday, September 15, 2009 1:00 - 3 Comments

Plug in to a low-voltage tree

Electrical engineers Babak Parviz and Brian Otis and undergraduate student Carlton Himes (right to left) demonstrate a circuit that runs entirely off tree power.

U. WASHINGTON (US)—Flower power’s great, but trees are where it’s at. For the first time, researchers have successfully run a circuit solely off tree power. Continue…