Plant Electricity | How To Generate Green Electricity From Plants

Green plants are known to be able to harvest the energy from the sunlight and transform that energy into food and oxygen. This process is known as photosynthesis.

In photosynthesis the photons (units of light energy) from the sun hit certain molecules inside the chloroplasts (the small green organelles inside the plant cell that carry out photosynthesis) causing the emmission of an electron. This electron moves from one molecule to another through a series of cytochromes (certain types of proteins) called photosystems I and II.

While the electron is moving it is losing the energy it acquired from the photon (from the sun light) and this energy is transformed into two chemical forms of energy (NADPH2 and ATP). And finally the electron is used to help split the water molecule which is the first step on releasing oxygen to the atmosphere.

The rest of the photosynthesis process is a series of chemical reactions through which carbon dioxide is fixed into organic material (glucose).

The summary of this process is the consumption of carbon dioxide and water, facilitated by energy from the sun, to produce glucose and oxygen.

Now let´s stop here and go back a little. When the electrons were moving in the photosystems I and II through the cytochromes, isn´t that an electric current?

Yes it is!

The researchers believe that with the tiny currents they are able to collect from maple trees they can only run small electronic devices such as those environmental detectors. But could this be the future of green energy?

I mean look at it this way. Plants are easy to grow. You and anyone can grow plants in their backyards, in the balconies, or on the roof tops. If you know how to produce electricity from these plants you might as well stop paying for your electricity bills and reduce gas emmission from burning fuel in power plants.

But this is not in the near future. And I don´t think it is good for the environment either.

Here is why:

Plants produce this electric current in order to perform the photosynthesis necessary to produce its own (and our) food, and to help clean up the environment from carbon dioxide which is causing global warming with the greenhouse effect. When we take some of this electricity we are reducing the efficiency of the photosynthesis process. The result will be less food and more carbon dioxide.

And when I say ¨some of this electricity¨ I am being conservative. Mankind is too greedy to just take some. If this source of energy proves any commercial value investors will do their best to deplete every electron they could in order to make an extra buck.

There is a false believe that to produce solar and wind energy for your home it will cost you at least $20,000 to get the necessary equipment installed, and that it´s only good for 10 years.

Well ... THIS IS A MYTH that whoever is making money from buying and selling fuel want you to believe. The truth is that you can produce your own electricity for your home and stop paying your electricity bills (or at least partially) for an initial cost of $200.

Fortunately there are tons of ebooks that explain in the most detailed manner, with pictures and videos, how to produce your energy yourself with tools and equipment you can buy from your local store for $200. If that´s only good for 10 years it´s worth it. Even if it was good for only 1 year, it´s still worth it given the comming deregulation of electricity which is expected to tripple electricity bills in North America.

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Now that plants are proving an economical value in a totally new dimension I think it´s time to start growing as many plants as we could on every spot possible. Your back yard could be a great source of your summer time (at least) vegetables if you grow them organically yourself. And don´t worry about not being a farmer. Growing plants is so easy that a caveman HAS DONE IT thousands of years ago.

And to make it even easier there is a very cheap ebook that you can download in minutes and be ready to invest your summer time in growing your own vegetables organically.

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