Artificial trees to harvest solar, wind and rain power

SolarBotanic is a company that specializes in an emerging tech dubbed biomimicry ( mimics the nature, and use nature-inspired methods to solve human problems).

The company is focusing mainly on energy production, and they have invented the Energy Harvesting Trees. The trees ( modeled on real ones) are composed of Nanoleafs, which use nanotechnology designed to capture the “sun’s energy in photovoltaic and thermovoltaic cells. After that they convert the radiation into electricity.”They also have stems and twigs which house nano-piezovoltaic material which act as generators producing electricity from movement or kinetic energy caused by wind or rain.

The company has several patents on the technology already, and are currently seeking partners for funding and development.

What about the forests…?

via: Engadget

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