Futurity.org » Brian Otis http://www.futurity.org Research news from leading universities Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:03:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 Plug in to a low-voltage tree http://www.futurity.org/science-technology/plug-in-to-a-low-voltage-tree/ http://www.futurity.org/science-technology/plug-in-to-a-low-voltage-tree/#comments Tue, 15 Sep 2009 05:00:45 +0000 Futurity-Jenny Leonard http://futurity.org/?p=3982

Tree power

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.

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