Voltree Power products

Voltree Power’s patented bioenergy harvester converts living plant metabolic energy to useable electricity, providing a unique battery replacement alternative for ultra-low power sensors and eventually a power source in nanotechnology. Voltree believes that integrated circuit advances will eventually lead to the development of electronics which will require diminishing amounts for power for operation. These naturally-occuring phenomena can serve as a power source in environmental sensing networks for climatic and wildlife monitoring in areas with limited accessibility and where battery replacement is not an option. Self sustaining power sources such as tree power will play a crictical role in these future applications.

A new and potentially serious threat to some of North America`s most beautiful and popular trees is the Asian Longhorned Beetle (Anoplophora glabripennis). Originally from parts of Asia, the beetle is believed to have arrived in North America in the wooden packing material used in cargo shipments from China. Isolated Asian Longhorned Beetle infestations have been discovered in New York, Illinois, Ohio and Massachusetts. Trees favored by the Asian Longhorned Beetle are predominantly maples, but infestations have also been discovered in horsechestnuts, poplars, willows, elms, mulberries and black locusts. Currently, there is no known chemical or biological defense against the Asian Longhorned Beetle and, in North America, they have few natural predators. In all cases of infestation, the affected trees are cut down and the wood destroyed. Therefore, early detection of infestations is critical to limiting the infested area and the number of trees removed.