Tree Have electrical Power
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found electrical on tree
Some researchers have found that there is enough electricity in the trees to supply power for electronic circuits. This discovery could be a way to make your home computer can be supplied energy from trees planted in the garden behind the house.
“As far as our knowledge, this is the first time researchers have found that a person can activate something by placing electrodes into a tree,” said Babak Parviz, a researcher from the University of Washington, as VIVAnews quotes from Mother Nature Network, September 14, 2009.
Parviz, and his colleague Brian Otiz has developed a tool that would allow a circuit is plugged into a tree. “This development could eventually overcome the problem of how to perform charging of portable gadgets such as iPods and mobile phones,” said Parviz.
This research is based on previous findings, when years ago some researchers found that trees can produce voltages up to 200 milivolt when an electrode installed in the tree and the other electrode planted in the ground. The technology is designed to function as a power sensor supplied forests in this way. But so far no one has tried to apply these findings to develop power plants a tree.
Last year, Carlton Himes, University of Washington student spending her summer in the woods around the campus and drove around the nail in the maple tree and then connect it to the voltmeter. He found that these trees have a stable voltage up to several hundred milivolt.
Due to very low voltage tree, he then made a special converter to take the input voltage to the minimum size to 20 milivolt can disimapan to produce greater output. The device then produces the output voltage to 1.1 volts, enough to run a low-power sensors.
Even so, the technology to take advantage of the pine tree as a supplier of power to the PC is still far away. And as information only, the human body has a large enough power to turn on the computer. Unfortunately have not found a way to connect people with the PC via cable without hurting humans.
i hope in next few year i can charging my blackberry on a oaks tree 
