When I went to get my bike from the rack on Thursday I caught two faculty members at IAAC experimenting with bio-electricity. The idea is that there are microbes in the soil around the roots of plants that under the right conditions can generate small amount of voltage and current (millivolts and milli or micro amps).
When I went to get my bike from the rack on Thursday I caught two faculty members at IAAC experimenting with bio-electricity in the back outdoor experiment area. They explained to me that there are microbes in the soil around the roots of plants, and under the right conditions they can generate small amount of voltage and current (millivolts and milli or micro amps).
They used two carbon fiber cloth electrodes connected to a bolt that led out through the side of the container, one near the top of the container and one near the bottom. They hope to generate enough electricity to run sensors and microcontrollers.
I have experimented with natural sources of voltage and current, like the earth's electric field, batteries made from lemons and potatoes and two different electrodes, the thermoelectric effect and the piezoelectric effect.
I have experimented with natural sources of voltage and current, like the earth's electric field, listening to the sounds of natural electrical phenomena on the earth, batteries made from lemons and potatoes and two different electrodes, the thermoelectric effect and the piezoelectric effect.
There are thousands of flows of energy all around us all the time, and I enjoy trying to make then visible. We make use of only a few of these energy pathways as they make there way from higher ordered/lower entropy sources to low order/higher entropy sinks.
