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September 9th, 2009
Scientists: Trees Produce Electricity
Abstract:
University of Washington scientists have discovered a new source of electricity: Trees.
In an experiment that will seem familiar to students of the potato, the scientists stuck one electrode into a bigleaf maple, and another in the ground, and saw that the tree generated a tiny stream of electricity -- a few hundred millivolts. That's not enough electricity to do much ... but run a circuit and get published in the scientific journal Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers' Transactions on Nanotechnology.
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