Sustainability often talked about innovation to Renewable Energy,
But this not so new technology of Plant based Electricity is perhaps one of the innovation that seems not being response aggressively by the world. Me in Indonesia, just find out about this great innovation this year of 2013 from a local magazine, name Tempo in their published magazine December edition.
It is very surprisingly odd for me that not many company or industry willing to try to use this technology, is because the cost? which in my logic would not be higher than solar cell technology..but perhaps I am wrong, or is it because it is one of innovation that could provide cheap energy with minimum impact to environment.
It is interesting for me because then my thinking was that, perhaps the reason is because many other industry would be affected from this new technology, many would not use their product anymore..etc..etc..my skeptic thinking that there is a movement in global to prevent this kind of technology to be socialized or at least not to be implement..
But just imagine if this is true, would it be as simple as having a park with their own power source for the park lamp or street light, or for plantation or community who lived in green village such as many in my country..can we imagine how many energy saved from that new technology, how many budget can be allocated to other purpose such as empowerment.
for those who doesn't know it yet, please find below article from www.plant-e.com
Technology
Plant-e
develops products in which living plants generate electricity. These
products are based technology that was developed at Wageningen University,
which was patented in 2007. The patent is now held by Plant-e. The
technology enables us to produce electricity from living plants at
practically every site where plants can grow. The technology is based on
natural processes and doesn’t harm the plant or its environment.
Via
photosynthesis a plant produces organic matter. Part of this organic
matter is used for plant-growth, but a large part can’t be used by the
plant and is excreted into the soil via the roots. Around the roots
naturally occuring micro-organisms break down the organic compounds to
gain energy from. In this process, electrons are released as a waste
product. By providing an electrode for the micro-organisms to donate
their electrons to, the electrons can be harvested as electricity. Research
has shown that plant-growth isn’t compromised by harvesting
electricity, so plants keep on growing while electricity is concurrently
produced.
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