Monday, September 30, 2019

Invention 21: Pot Plant Power

Something I discovered, apparently for the first time, is that plants (all of them) carry a 0.4V charge relative to the ground. However, plants share a common ground -- Mother Earth -- so one needs to wire them in series, in pots (above), to run 1.5V micro-power circuits off them. OBSERVATION: I succeeded in running an oscillator off one single plant (oscillators pump up a voltage), which means that a single plant, whether in a pot or not, might power, say, a flashing LED. However, my oscillator did not work well enough to pump up the voltage -- 0.4V is at the edge of normal electronics. I am convinced, though, that someone could make that work, and it could be a hit.

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