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Harvester is going into the woods!

A project log for Harvester - Building the Energy Forest

An Open Source project to build cheap linear generators to harvest the wind energy which moves trees in a forest (or waves in the sea)

tobiwanTobiwan 07/15/2018 at 12:120 Comments
Yesterday I had a talk with a friend of mine who owns a small forest here in Bavaria, Germany. He got excited about my idea and offered that I can mount data collection systems and prototypes at his trees. Its a working forest with mainly spruces and it is situated at a hillside, which is very good for wind energy harvesting :) As soon one of my prototypes is ready I will bring it there and test it. If I come to the final round of the Hackaday prize I plan to use some of the money to build and test a small (<10 units) batch of the most promising prototype, but more about my future plans and the next steps in one of the next project logs.
Above you can see the aerial view of the forest in question :)

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