Tropical rain forests in Peru light up villages with plants and soil

In Spanish, Plantal mparas means a power plant through the lamp. In order to provide electricity to remote villages in Peru without electricity, this device looks like a cartoon "Wall-E" by wooden plants produce energy, let LED bulb light.

This device is composed of a science and Engineering University of Peru (Universidad de Ingenieriay Tecnologia) research and development, is currently in the NuevoSaposoa operation (the village from the nearest city takes five hours, and only arrive by boat). There are currently 173 residents in the area, and the floods of the year before last March destroyed the area's cable lines, resulting in no electricity. Until they bought the new bulb, residents could only work and Study on kerosene lamps.

Plantal mparas will be the by-product of photosynthesis for electric bulb. When a plant produces energy from sunlight, it sends unwanted products into the soil, which is produced by the oxidation of microorganisms. The electrodes in the soil will then gather the energy to the battery, which can provide the energy equivalent to 50 watt incandescent bulbs for LED bulbs.

This plan in Peru will have a bright future, because Peru has 42% tropical rainforest population still live a life without electricity, but they have the most positive plants and soil, and to make mparas the survival of water resources Plantal. Of course this problem need to rely on infrastructure to solve, but from the film can be seen, the device extended residence duration of sunshine, let the children through the night without the burning of fossil fuels can also.

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