> To my knowledge plants don't have anodes or cathodes.

As I understand it, it's claimed electrons are generated by microbes
around the roots. They are what are said to be captured.

However, if the microbe population is fairly well distributed,
perhaps if the plant has a ball of fibrous roots, you'd think
there would be zero potential between any two points
underground and so no way to establish anode/cathode
collection with simple probes of the same metal, as they could
both be bathed in a similar number of electrons. Maybe these
devices have smarts to detect any minute start-up potential
difference and then assign the probes as +/-.

A similar product

http://plant-e.com/technology.html

Yours for the low low price of ........ What ? How much ?

http://plant-e.com/products/products-for-sale/DIY-Box.html

If what is said here is true

http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/1839/20130509/system-make-plants-ge=
nerate-usable-electricity-developed-university-georgia.htm

then interrupting the photosynthesis must derive the plant.

The e-Kaia people say electrons are a "waste product", but are
they ? Removing billions of electrons from around the roots must
leave billions of incomplete chemical reactions and a surplus of
positively-charged ions. What's that gonna do ?

I don't know, it all sounds a tiny bit flakey and over-hopeful

Joe=20



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