Tree power could save forests from fires

Courtesy MSNBC.com: Environment  Wed, 10/01/2008 - 11:15

Massachusetts Institute of Technology senior Christopher Love works with a test tree behind the copper-plated insulated door of MIT's Faraday cage.<br /><br />Love and colleagues are working to find out whether energy from trees can be used to prevent forest fires.<br /><br />Tree power might sound like a hippie battle cry, but scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have literally tapped into the tiny electrical current carried in trees and created a company, Voltree, to capitalize on it as a power source.


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