NEW YORK, BRONX (ORDO News) — A new technology has appeared in the world that can change our understanding of energy sources. Swedish inventors working in the laboratories of the Western Institute of Technology decided to use the potential of wood as a source of electricity. They came to an interesting conclusion: trees are capable of conducting and generating electricity.
The idea is that water rising from the roots to the leaves of plants produces electricity. Scientists have successfully replicated this process in the laboratory and even enhanced it by generating electricity.
As the president of the institute, Anders Söderholm, noted, “By changing the structure of wood at the nanoscale, we were able to significantly improve the ability of wood to generate electricity. Wood can produce high voltages for several hours.”
At the moment, scientists have managed to obtain 140 millivolts of energy, which, unfortunately, is not enough even to light an ordinary light bulb. But researchers don’t give up. They developed an original transistor (also made of wood) that can be used to amplify the signal. This required removing lignin from wood, similar to glass production.
Organic electronics engineer Claes Tybrandt, from Linköping University, said: “We took balsa wood, dissolved natural glue and filled the cavities that formed in its place with a polymer with mixed electron-ionic conductivity. These three pieces of wood could be the start of green electronics.”
However, there is a caveat: the wooden device operates at a frequency of only one hertz, which is significantly lower than the silicon transistors used in modern technology. Despite the potential of this technology , replacing modern electronic components with wooden ones in the near future seems impossible.
However, the Swedish scientists’ research represents a decisive step towards the development of clean energy sources. This technology could become the basis for future innovations and give impetus to the development of green energy.
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