Preventing forest fires with tree power

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23 September 2008

On 23 September 2008 Science Daily reported: The feasibility of using trees as sentinels, which warn of forest fires or radioactive materials, is being studied by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a prestigious engineering university and research institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Global Good News service views this news as a sign of rising positivity in the field of science, documenting the growth of life-supporting, evolutionary trends.

Science Daily explained, 'The U.S. Forest Service currently predicts and tracks fires with a variety of tools, including remote automated weather stations. But these stations are expensive and sparsely distributed. Additional sensors could save trees by providing better local climate data to be used in fire prediction models and earlier alerts. However, manually recharging or replacing batteries at often very hard-to-reach locations makes this impractical and costly.'

Trees can detect an imbalance in pH between itself and the soil it grows in. They can produce extremely small amounts of electricity which overtime can amount to enough voltage to power off-the-shelf rechargeable batteries.

The idea is that the sensor system—the bioenergy harvester battery charger—will tap into trees as a self-sustaining power supply. The trees will recharge batteries using their own self-generated electricity. Only four trees per acre are needed for the wireless sensor network to work.

The article expained, 'The system produces enough electricity to allow the temperature and humidity sensors to wirelessly transmit signals four times a day, or immediately if there's a fire. Each signal hops from one sensor to another, until it reaches an existing weather station that beams the data by satellite to a forestry command center in Boise, Idaho.'

In the spring of 2009, Voltree Power will start testing the wireless sensor network on 10 acres of Forest Service land.

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