Tapping Trees for Electricity?

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday January 11, 2006 @10:21AM from the dc-tree dept.

dr_agonfly writes "Despite many skeptics, a Massachusetts company is getting investor interest in developing a process to tap electric power from trees. MagCap is looking to boost the current power from just under 2 volts to a more useful 12 volts with investor funding." From the article: "Jim Manwell, director of the University of Massachusetts Amherst's Renewable Energy Resource Laboratory, questioned the potential of MagCap's plans. 'I'm wildly skeptical,' he said. 'I would need to see proof before I believed it. It strikes me as pretty questionable for a number of reasons.'"

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Re:Let's just get them out of the way... by MarkRose · 2006-01-12 13:29 · Score: 0, Offtopic

And pointing that out will be modded +5 Funny, and this will be modded offtopic, and for point that out, it will be shamelessly ignored entirely.

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