Devs claim charger uses 'photosynthesis' power battery charger A team of developers claiming to have created the world’s first plant-pot-powered battery charger are pulling in crowd funding support. The project has raised more than €61,000 – over four times its target – and has piqued the interest of more than 400 people who have bought the plant pot, named Bioo Lite. We're told it is …
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"Assuming 2kwh phone battery capacity they can produce 6kwh/day, from a single plant?
Surely shome mishtake? That sounds very high to me. "
I think you have your units wrong, a phone battery is on the order of 3000mAh, which would take 10-ish W for an hour (.010 kWh) to charge. (3000 mAh * 3.6 V). 2kWh would be like running an 1875W hair dryer for an hour.
"Hard to square with this kind of output from a flowerpot"
Quote:
-Chantal Marin, Bioo's chief marketing officer, said that the Bioo Lite device is boosted by “natural chemical enhancers in order to support the energy produced by photosynthesis.”-
Reads to me like a flowerpot shaped battery with a bit of 'green' snakeoil added.
El Reg, have you no shame?
Has it come to this? Clickbait and eyeball-scrounging?
Will we be getting listicles next? "You won't believe these 10 hot tips to wow your storage admin in the data center"?
This is yet another in the long list of blatant frauds populating IndieGoGo (along with Shiftwear, Fontus, Trtiton, and many others). Devices that claim the physically impossible, but manage to steal millions of dollars because irresponsible journalists like you fail to ask even the most basic questions before hyping them to the world. Or, perhaps worse, choose not to ask those questions because you want ad impressions.
Show some journalistic integrity, Ms. Quatch! Delete this article. And check out https://www.reddit.com/r/shittykickstarters/, or simply engage your brain, before posting things like this in the future.
Great link. For Shiftwear (puts an e-ink screen on sneakers), I feel like a quote from a commenter is deserved:
Here is a list of their ‘team’
Corey Herscu – Media Relations
Zack Young – Digital & Social Strategy
Madeleine Stoesser – Media Relations
Samantha Goldsilver – Campaigner
George Alexandru Zaharia – Co-Founder/Lead Software Engineer
David Coelho – Founder
over 1/2 are social media guru’s who probably wouldn’t know what a soldering iron was if it bit them.
They have no electrical engineer…. at all. They have a software engineer, but they need a f’n brilliant electrical engineer to make what they’re talking about.
But, as we all know, social media is the end-all and be-all, so it'll all work out dans le meilleur des mondes.
Where is Bong? I miss him. :(
Energy harvested from bacteria alone isn't enough to provide a decent charge. In 2013, a team of scientists from Bristol Robotics Laboratory managed to produce a meagre 2.5mW – much lower than the 5W output of a typical phone charger – from urine-powered bacteria.
Why not combine the two approaches then? I often find I piss in the plant pots after a big night out so finding my spare phone charged in the morning would help to alleviate the hangover.
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