dappusubhani Posted May 11, 2015 Report Posted May 11, 2015 Evelyn Aravena, Camila Rupcich and Carolina Guerrero are three engineering students with a great idea for an electricity-free smartphone charger that uses energy taken from plants. E-Kaia was made by the three students when they were in university at the Duoc UC in Valparaíso and the Andrés Bello National University in 2009. There is a solution called Plant-e in Netherlands that involves harnessing electricity from living plants, but the problem is that it needs many of them. So it’s a great thing that E-Kaia only needs one plant to work perfect. https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=222&v=Y66-JL3s7CA A biocircuit is buried in a plant pot with a plant, with outputs leading out of the soil, and 5 volts and 600 milliamps can be harvested and converted into electrical energy without causing any damage to the plant. According to the inventors this amount of energy is enough for one and a half hours of normal usage with a smartphone. The creators stated in a YouTube video promoting their solution: “We found ourselves with the same problem every day, and we wanted to find a solution to it. Living in a world that completely depends on electricity, people would be out of communication whenever that source fails, This is how we came up with a technology that allowed us to use natural resources, maintaining that energy and also the environment.” The three creators are hopping that the technology can one day be used for bigger purposes, such as a park that is completely self-sufficient, powering street lamps from its own trees and plants, or to bring electricity to rural areas in Chile where there is limited access to power plants.
lbs Posted May 11, 2015 Report Posted May 11, 2015 Unna chetlani nariki 10gutunnaru Iga full scale lo Ilanti equipment market laki vaste Chetlu/plants motta kudustayi
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