In Israel electronic trees will share Internet
As it is known, trees with the help of photosynthesis process sunshine into oxygen. Specialists from Israeli company Sologic, probably, were inspired by this natural mechanism, and created trees called eTrees which, fed with the solar power, may share Internet through Wi-Fi, energize telephones, and different home appliances like hot&cold water dispensers.
It is difficult to call eTrees as typical trees – there is nothing organic in them. Trunks are metal, and instead of green leaves there are massive solar panels. During the day these panels are loaded from the sun and feed with electricity the «trunks» of USB-connectors, Wi-Fi routing gateway, fountains with potable water, and small information indicator board.
The first electronic trees were showed several days ago in Zichron Ya'akov in Israel. But Sologic plans also to sell its development in China and France.
One eTree costs nearly $100 000. It may produce approximately 1,4 kW of energy. It is enough, for instance, to energize 35 laptops simultaneously. Certainly, eTrees cannot change usual solar panels, but may become useful and visually pleasing street attribute. However, city administration should care about additional benches around electronic trees: there, evidently, will be lots of those who desire to lounge in Internet openspace free-of-charge.
