Article The Potential for Harvesting Energy from the Movement of Trees

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Mena Maurice Farag Thank you for the useful reference. The approach is a sort of value addition to trees.

In my opinion, it is an inefficient method. Why? Because, if you hang some weight on trees, winds with small velocity can not oscillate trees.

what about new approaches? what about robotic techniques to harvest wind energy from trees?

What if we have an external skeleton over trees made of microrobots? I know it is costly for the time being. https://is.mpg.de/en/news/microrobot-collectives-display-versatile-movement-patterns?fbclid=IwAR1Yr8dt37JpwWEOftGf9ORD7fgqMTFH8LIfYiR9KTWuqBHrhv6LWuBTBTk

It is not a bad idea but according to my point of view; I think that it will not give as a large potential of electricity, especially in places where the wind energy is low, moreover, if we put any material on the trees this will negatively affect the efficiency and quantity of the harvested power, or it's possible to deteriorate the trees. So I think that using wind power directly through a wind turbine is better than this technique.

Amara Yasmine Your points are clear. However, we will not place even a wind turbine in a less windy place. The problems you mentioned are up to how we adapt the robotic technologies, for this purpose research is needed. I believe, this technique will be possible in the future with the evolution of robotics technologies, like we experienced in the unprecedented evolution of mobile phones. Appropriate locations and types of trees have to be decided. If we can capture the movement of trees from the leaves level, I don’t think, it would produce less energy as a system. #microrobots

And it is not all about harvesting wind energy, but also about adding value to trees and protecting them with more attention. #AvoidPlantBlindness

But the energy will be used in small applications only and isolated systems/