By Liliana Usvat
Blog 229-365
Trees produce electricity and can give if out - it appears that trees resonate at 7.8 Hz like soil and out brains - so trees must have some balancing function.
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/tesla/lostjournals/lostjournals07.htm
Blog 229-365
Trees produce electricity and can give if out - it appears that trees resonate at 7.8 Hz like soil and out brains - so trees must have some balancing function.
A team from QUT’s International Laboratory for Air Quality and Health
(ILAQH), led by Professor Lidia Morawska, and including Dr. Rohan
Jayaratne and Dr. Xuan Ling, ran experiments in six locations all over
Brisbane and found that positive and negative ion concentrations in the
air were twice as high in heavily wooded areas than in open grassy
areas, such as parks.
In 1891, Nikola Tesla gave a lecture for the members of the American
Institute of Electrical Engineers in New York City, where he made a
striking demonstration. In each hand he held a gas discharge tube, an
early version of the modern fluorescent bulb. The tubes were not
connected to any wires, but nonetheless they glowed brightly during his
demonstration. Tesla explained to the awestruck attendees that the
electricity was being transmitted through the air by the pair of metal
sheets which sandwiched the stage. He went on to speculate how one might
increase the scale of this effect to transmit wireless power and
information over a broad area, perhaps even the entire Earth. As was
often the case, Tesla's audience was engrossed but bewildered.
Other Experiments
Connecting electrodes driven into a tree trunk and the
ground nearby can provide a current. But last year Andreas Mershin's
team at MIT
showed that using electrodes made of the same metal also gives a
current, meaning another effect must be at work. Mershin thinks the
electricity derives from a difference in pH between the tree and the
soil, a chemical imbalance maintained by the tree's metabolic processes.
Trees seem capable of providing a constant voltage of anywhere between
20 and a few hundred millivolts – way below the 1.5 volts from a
standard AA battery and close to the level of background electrical
noise in circuits.
We can to obtain a usable voltage from big-leaf maple trees by adding a device
called a voltage boost converter. The converter spends most of its time
in a kind of stand-by mode as it stores electrical energy from the
tree, periodically releasing it at 1.1 volts.
Trees could power gadgets to monitor their own physiology or their immediate surroundings, for ecological research.
Energy harvested from trees can power sensors that monitor temperature and humidity inside forests. It is done in Canton, Massachusetts.
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