Press Releases
SolarBotanic Secures R & D Funding from California Based Renewable Energy Company
SolarBotanic has inked a major joint-venture deal with the renewable energy company GREENgENERGY, Inc. to fund the R & D phase for the company’s patented energy harvesting artificial trees. The potential market for SolarBotanic’s trees is virtually unlimited and it involves integrating a vast array of brilliant and cutting-edge technologies, said Craig Etchegoyen of GREENgENERGY. Mr. Etchegoyen, founder of digital security firm Uniloc USA, is recognized as a leader in developing technology-based IP.
London, UK (PRWEB) June 9, 2009 — The company is very excited about the relationship with their American partners. They bring an expertise in financing and technical know-how that compliments SolarBotanic’s existing board perfectly, stated a spokesperson for SolarBotanic Ltd. Their experience in one of the world’s largest Energy-markets places the company in a very strategic position as it looks to expand in Europe, Asia and the Middle East, he added. SolarBotanic is in discussions with several very large technology firms and expects to have its first prototype tree in approximately 12 months.
The company’s mission is to produce a cost-effective renewable energy solution that is easily implemented,carbon neutral, aesthetically appealing and community scalable.
To accomplish this goal, SolarBotanic (SB) has developed an innovative and efficient energy solution by combining bio-mimicry and nano technologies in unique, Patented, artificial trees.
To harness the power of the Sun and Wind, these artificial trees and plant structures are designed to utilize three major types of nano-technologies: photovoltaics, thermovoltaics and piezovoltaic, the result is a commercially viable alternative and/or supplement to other energy generating technologies.
Few sources of power fit the “renewable” bill better than wind and electromagnetic radiation from the Sun. Sunlight, wind and thermal (infrared) radiation is plentiful (supplies should last at least 5 billion years), emits no pollution and enough of this natural energy reaches the planet’s surface in one hour (approximately 1,000watts/second/m2) to provide 100% of the world’s energy needs for one year.
There are many exciting opportunities in the adaptation of solar, wind and thermal power. Large solar-arrays and wind-turbine farms are being developed in places that show the most geo-optimal concentrations of sunlight and wind, however, like all traditional power generation, none of these are likely to be the single “magic bullet” technology that will solve the entire world’s energy demands. For one, they are usually extremely capitally intensive. They require large property acquisitions (trading one non-renewable resource like oil for another–land), and to date have not achieved grid parity. SOLARBOTANIC offers a piece of the energy solution that supplements, rather than competes with, these large-scale efforts.
Carbon Neutrality. The Kyoto Accords established targets for the global reduction of harmful green house gasses. There are many ways to achieve this goal. One approach is to produce things using less energy,and the other is to re-form waste into new products to minimize new GHG creation. Companies that do a particularly good job of reducing emissions can sell this value through Verified Emissions Reductions “VERs” and Reduced Emissions Credits “RECs”. SolarBotanic trees will be manufactured from recycled and non-petroleum based materials.
Though the primary driver of the trees are the nanoleaves, the trunk can be designed for far greater purposes than merely holding up the canopy. Besides covering it’s surface with PV or sound absorption materials, it houses the electrical converter units and filters which are designed to intake harmful GHGs and output clean air (just like real trees do to some extent). We believe that companies that generate a portion of their power from utilizing our trees will be able to create certifiable carbon credits that can be sold on the open market.
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Brilliant New Plan Will Allow Highway Trees to Produce Clean Renewable Energy
A new development by SolarBotanic Ltd could make every highway a clean energy producing, aesthetically pleasing, harvester of electricity. Each kilometre will be able to generate approximately 350,000 kWh per year, enough electricity to power approximately 60 average size houses and protect the environment by preventing the release of up to 500 tons of CO2 annually. Solar Botanic trees achieve this via their biomimicry concept, Energy Harvesting Trees (EHT). EHT’s convert light, heat and wind energy into clean electricity, and do not cause visual pollution or long-lasting damage to our environment or ecosystems.
London, England (PRWEB) March 23, 2009 — Imagine if you can, highways and freeways lined with beautiful looking trees that not only create a barrier against the elements, but at the same time generate electricity 24 hours a day 7 days a week.
France
Paris - Lyon highway is roughly 460 Kilometres long and good for 32,000 SolarBotanic trees. With an annual electricity output of more than 193 MW, France could reduce its carbon footprint by 145 thousand tons of CO2 per year and produce enough electricity to power over 26,000 average size homes.
Saudi Arabia
Riyadh - Mecca highway is roughly 800 Kilometres long and good for 56,000 SolarBotanic trees. With an annual electricity output of more than 336 MW, Saudi Arabia could reduce its carbon footprint by more than 145 thousand tons of CO2 per year and produce enough electricity to power over 46,000 average size homes.
United States
Las Vegas - San Bernardino highway is roughly 540 Kilometres long and good for 37,000 SolarBotanic trees. With an annual electricity output of more than 226 MW, Nevada could reduce its carbon footprint by more than 168 thousand tons of CO2 per year and produce enough electricity to power over 18,000 average size homes.
Australia
Adelaide - Perth highway is roughly 2700 Kilometres long and good for 189,000 SolarBotanic trees. With an annual electricity output of more than 1.2 GW, Australia could reduce its carbon footprint by more than 900 thousand tons of CO2 per year and produce enough electricity to power over 118,000 average size homes.
England
The M25 ring road which circumnavigates London is 180 kilometres long and is good for 13,000 SolarBotanic trees. With an annual electricity output of more than 65 MW, England could reduce its carbon footprint by more than 48 thousand tons of CO2 per year and produce enough electricity to power over 10,000 average size homes.
The company retains patents and has patents pending covering Biomimicry,Nanoleaf Technology, Energy transfer materials and process, and has confirmed proof of concept criteria as required by investor groups.
www.solarbotanic.com is interested in talking to potential JV partners who have the required sector expertise and funding to take this project from the R&D phase to full commercialization, the company is also looking for agents and distributors in the Middle East and Asia
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A Totally New Way To Generate Renewable Electricity
Artificial Trees Designed to Harness the Power of the Sun and Wind. Biomimicry is an emerging science resolving human problems by adopting nature’s ingenious processes. Using biomimicry techniques,a SolarBotanic artificial tree, or plant structure, functions as a passive solar-wind harvester. Ultimately, energy is harvested then efficiently captured, concentrated, stored and/or converted to a high value energy form.
London, UK (PRWEB) February 23, 2009 — In an age of global concern for escalating fossil fuel prices, energy security and CO2 emissions, a fervent demand for sustainable energy sources endures. In apt response to this critical issue, a renewable alternative energy innovation is receiving wide spread interest and attention.
Renewable energy company,SolarBotanic, unveils a revolutionary solution — Energy Harvesting Trees.
Biomimicry (nature’s own superior engineering) and Nano technology are integral to SolarBotanic’s schema. Exclusively designed Nanoleaves are incorporated with a combination of Biomimicry and advanced Nano technologies. The result is a green, clean, highly efficient means for generating electricity.
SolarBotanic’s unique energy harvesting process utilizes three major types of technologies; Photovoltaics, Thermovoltaics and Piezovoltaic.
Photovoltaics (PV) are the direct conversion of light into electricity using semiconductor materials; Thermovoltaics (TV) are the direct conversion of heat into Electricity using semiconductor materials; Piezovoltaic (PZ) is the direct conversion of kinetic energy into electricity using a semiconductor device commonly known as “nano cells.”
The SolarBotanic PV/TV/PZ subprogram research and development are divided into two main areas: nanoleaf and artificial tree or plant structures.
Nanoleaf technology is an inventive method of green energy collection, combining the conversion of light, heat and wind power. Integrated nano technologies enable the nanoleaves to convert solar radiation (light & heat) into electricity.
Furthermore, the leaf petiole or the stem, and twigs comprise nano-piezovoltaic material — these tiny generators produce electricity from movement or kinetic energy caused by wind or falling raindrops. A fundamental flaw in conventional solar cells is that electrons give too much energy by sunlight and lose that energy in heat form, as the electrons move thermally to the bottom of the conduction band. SolarBotanic “hotcarrier” solar cells would use quantum dots (i.e., nano-particles) to confine electrons long enough so that they could be extracted before their energy dissipates as heat. With this process of combining the conversion of light, heat and wind, more energy is generated, as the “hot carrier” can now be efficiently used with the implementation of thermovoltaic cells.
Biomimicry is an emerging science resolving human problems by adopting nature’s ingenious processes. Using biomimicry techniques,a SolarBotanic artificial tree, or plant structure, functions as a passive solar-wind harvester. Ultimately, energy is harvested then efficiently captured, concentrated, stored and/or converted to a high value energy form.
SolarBotanic’s essential technical element is the Nanoleaf; designed to capture the sun’s radiant energy in photovoltaic and thermovoltaic cells, and convert the radiation into electricity. As the wind blows the layers of voltaic material in the stems, twigs and branches are moved, compressed and stretched, creating electricity. Consequently, as the sun shines, the winds blow and the rain falls, millions of micro circuits activate, each making its contribution to the electrical energy of the tree. An average tree with a canopy of approximately 6 square meters can generate enough energy to provide for the needs of the average household.
Designed to appear as genuine and attractive as their organic counterparts, with the capacity to harness the eternal prolific power of the Sun and Wind, the applications of SolarBotanic trees are impressively extensive and adaptable.
SolarBotanic trees have the capacity to supply a single household or can be installed in areas where natural growing groups of trees would previously have been used,(i.e., along motor ways, in suburban streets, parks,etc.), and can make a significant contribution to the national electrical grid.
In areas where wind turbines are not welcome the SolarBotanic trees can be used in groves, capturing both wind and sun. SolarBotanic woods of oak, ash, beech or sycamore have the advantage over organic deciduous trees where instead of losing their leaves in winter, they maintain “foliage” and continue to generate energy. In deserts, where hydroponics allow the cultivation of fruit and vegetables, SolarBotanic trees and plants both shade the growing tunnels, and provide electricity to circulate water and cool the interior.
Conversely in cold regions SolarBotanic trees can provide cheap heating and lighting for crops which would not otherwise be viable.
SolarBotanic energy systems possess the ingenuity and versatility to provide clean electric energy systems for grid-connected power, grid-independent power, water and space heating, industrial process heating, and power plants. SolarBotanic renewable energy holds immense potential as a supplement or alternative to fossil fuels for serving energy markets world wide and for developing nations.
The company retains patents and has patents pending covering Biomimicry,Nanoleaf Technology, Energy transfer materials and process, and has confirmed proof of concept criteria as required by investor groups.
SolarBotanic is interested in talking to potential JV partners who have the required sector expertise and funding to take this project from the R&D phase to full commercialization.
A Stunning New Development Provides Renewable Energy From Artificial Trees to Power Cars and Homes
Using cutting edge materials and proven technology to harvest energy from the sun and wind, the company has been granted patents and has patents pending covering Biomimicry, Nanoleaf Technology,Energy transfer materials and process, and has moved past proof of concept criteria as required by investor groups. SolarBotanic has received approaches from different Government bodies who will provide advanced Research and Development facilities and interested investor groups. The company is now looking to select final business partners for investment, R&D, manufacturing, distribution and marketing from organisations with relevant specialist knowledge and sector understanding.
More powerful than wind farms, more efficient than solar panels and more practical and aesthetically pleasing than both.
SolarBotanic is a company which harvests the energy of the sun and wind by incorporating established science into an innovative nanotechnology.(www.solarbotanic.com)
World economies are dependent on a diminishing resource of environmentally unfriendly fossil fuels. The search for clean alternative energy is a major political, economic and social imperative.
Existing sources of renewable energy, solar panels, parabolic sun collectors, wind and tidal turbines are inefficient, expensive and environmentally insensitive.
SolarBotanic’s method of energy capture is both clean and renewable and with a wide spectrum of applications.
The human population of the world has trebled in the past fifty years from over 2 billion to 6 billion and will increase to about 12 billion in the life time of many of those living today. The farm animals needed to feed the human population has increased even more rapidly and by 2100 will exceed 100 billion.
Both human and farm animal populations depend on fossil fuels for their energy needs. The result is global warming which is having a destructive effect on many eco systems and seems likely to reduce the quality and quantity of human life.
It is against this ominous background that the search for renewable energy has intensified in the hope of avoiding the catastrophes which lie ahead.
SolarBotanic has significant answers to some of these environmental questions.
Technology
SolarBotanic has designed artificial trees and plants which are so lifelike that to most casual observers they are living trees and plants.
In fact, each tree or plant is a powerhouse of renewable energy harvesting the eternal profligate power of the sun, wind and rain.
The essential element in this technology is SolarBotanic’s artificial leaf (Nanoleaf) which captures the sun’s radiant energy in photo voltaic and thermo voltaic cells converting the radiation into electricity.
Simultaneously as the wind blows the layers of voltaic material in the stems, twigs and branches are moved, compressed and stretched, creating electricity.
Thus as the sun shines, the winds blow and the rain falls, millions of micro circuits are activated, each making its contribution to the electrical energy of the tree.
An average tree with a canopy of about 6 sq metres can create enough energy to provide for the needs of an average household.
SolarBotanic trees can be used to service a single household or they can be used in situations where natural growing groups of trees would previously have been used, such as along motorways, in suburban streets or parks where they can make a significant contribution to the national electrical grid.
In areas where wind turbines are not welcome the Botanic trees can be used in groves, capturing both wind and sun.
SolarBotanic woods of oak, ash, beech or sycamore have the advantage over real deciduous trees in not losing their leaves in winter but continue creating energy.
In deserts, where hydroponics allow the cultivation of fruit and vegetables, SolarBotanic trees and plants both shade the growing tunnels, and provide electricity to circulate water and cool the interior.
Conversely in cold regions SolarBotanic trees can provide cheap heating and lighting for crops which would not otherwise be viable.
The Future
At this stage the company has been granted patents and has patents pending covering Biomimicry,Nanoleaf Technology,Energy transfer materials and process, and has moved past proof of concept criteria as required by investor groups.
SolarBotanic has received approaches from different Government bodies to provide advanced Research and Development facilities and interested investor groups. The company is now looking to select final business partners for investment, R&D, manufacturing, distribution and marketing from organisations with relevant specialist knowledge and sector understanding.
www.solarbotanic.com 29/10/08