Solar Ivy Interesting Alternative Energy Design

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It’s staggering how little has been done in solar and wind alternative energy.  I think that shows just how apathetic we are when it comes to such ideas.  However, some folks have recently come up with a pretty neat idea.  It involves making solar cells that look like ivy, as you can see in the flash video above.  But this is also a wind generator, as you will see.

The cells look interesting climbing up the side of a building, but they also generate solar power.  The interesting twist is that each leaf also carries a piezoelectric generator on the backside.  So, when the wind is blowing the leaves, it is generating electricity as well.  SMIT_grow as the project is called, is currently producing a lower design, but is working to get this idea into production.  I would love to see the energy generation facts on this as well as cost.

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