Promoting Symbiotic Relations Between Trees&Plants

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Day two, BB prototype two!

 

Weighing in at 1.5 lbs, an eccentric cam BB that really bounces while spinning!

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So a bit of wind today really got BB2 spinning at a fair clip. Which intensified the eccentric cam's effect from a bounce into a vibration, like a badly unbalanced tire on a car.

 

It was at that point that I began to wonder whether vibrating a long lateral on a conifer during sporadic wind events, would be an effective means of clearing snow loads from them in deep winter?

 

Particularly appealing perhaps for trees within proximity to power line corridors?

 

Perhaps wind powered branch shakers are the more apt name for this silly idea?

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So how does one go about shakin a huge excurrent conifer by the main trunk via wind power?

 

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I developed the Tree Slave as a means of generating clean renewable electricity by harnessing it to huge coastal redwoods here in CA. And because its motion that's exposed to the elements is a simple yet extremely powerful back and forth reciprocation? It would function buried in the snow and ice,IMO.

 

Use the power generated as you wish. The only drawback is that it's a burst generator that essentially functions like a ratcheting Jack in the box toy.

 

But even intermittent bursts of power can be put to many uses these days. From a strictly academic and scientific point of view? Putting all that generated power to use for the tree and its immediate environs in the forms of pumped water, generated warmth or light? Clearing it of snow every hour by shakin it free of snow?

 

How about a magical forest that's digitally enhanced to teach children visitors it's wonders and mysteries?

United States Patent: 6825574

 

Jomo

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Can a giant decurrent beech or oak be harnessed to produce electric power?

 

Yup! Using good old traditional steel hardware attachment points, but utilizing inline hydraulic cylinders as one way pumps. Compressed nitrogen on the opposing side of each cylinder act as return springs to hold the branch in a neutral, or no wind position. Each cylinder is hydraulically plumbed to charge a 30 gallon nitrogen bladder accumulator and hydraulic reservoir. When a set amount pressure's been reached? Bang! Three full minutes of sustained power generation!

 

Now this is obviously not applicable to making money in an economically viable sense. But from a Symbiotic scientific research point of view?

 

All hydraulic systems develop leaks in due time, so type of oil used and regular maintenance of the system are musts.

 

But who has the money or inclination to conduct such fanciful magical forest didneyland stuff?

 

Jomoco