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- From: mike@elec.canterbury.ac.nz (Cosmik Debris)
- Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
- Subject: Re: electrical signals in plants will make me rich
- Keywords: doodz
- Message-ID: <C1C1CI.JE4@cantua.canterbury.ac.nz>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 00:29:06 GMT
- References: <1993Jan21.204204.7819@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Organization: Electrical Engineering, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
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- In article <1993Jan21.204204.7819@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, pfinerty@nyx.cs.du.edu (fun fun fun boy) writes:
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- >
- > i figure i can build an electric car that will run on the current
- > generated by these plants. all i have to do is fill the trunk with
- > plants and just beat on them when i want current to make the car go.
- > yeah. it will be sort of like a solar powered car but the plants will
- > be the solar cells. i figure plants with the biggest leaves will be the
- > best since they can photosynthesize the most. of course, i'll prob
- > have to buy new plants every other day since they will fairly well
- > etc
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- Maybe it works with animals too! You could put an antenna on your car and pick
- up the energy from pedestrians as you run them over. Then you don't need plant
- food.
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