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Artificial trees designed to harness the power of the sun and wind

March 4, 2009

Did you ever wish you could ‘grow’ energy at home? A renewable energy company, SolarBotanic, has unveiled a solution that it describes as an integration of biomimicry and nano technology. Called Energy Harvesting Trees, it combines photovoltaics, thermovoltaics and piezovoltaic. Photovoltaics (PV) are the direct conversion of light into electricity using semiconductor materials; thermovoltaics (TV) [...]

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