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Energy from Grapes

Posted by michael on from the black-powder-and-alcohol dept.

shpoffo writes "This article at BetterHumans.com talks about harvesting energy from grapes - enough to power small microchips that could be implanted in/attached to plants for monitoring/etc. Seems like it's just a piece of the larger picture emerging..."

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  1. Re:So in other words by JUSTONEMORELATTE · · Score: 3, Informative

    this is just a glorified potato clock.
    That was my first impression too -- stick copper and zinc wires into a grape and you get electricity -- but that's not what they're doing. The article is light on details, but using a pair of carbon rods (insert Simpsons ref here) they're digesting glucose and collecting a few microwatts as a product.

    +1 Insightful? -1 wet-blanket-in-a-+1-Funny-thread?

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