Not another one. And they found EEVBlog... awesome, at least we're making a difference!
Explain to us how the energy stack adds up, especially the excess "electricity" required to charge a phone when we all know that the purpose of photosynthesis is the production of sugars which the plant then metabolizes primarily for it's own use. If you look at the surface area of a plant, the actual energy and efficiencies and even the production of stored sugars and you could extract all of it in some magical way, there is no way in hell you could generate what you need to charge a phone, even if the plant could stay alive without any sugar being maintained for it's own biological processes.
Furthermore, this complete bullshit about micro-organisms generating nanowires that are all lined up to permit electrical flow in the same direction of voltage potential, without shorting each other, is just garbage designed to confuse people.
Either you are plugging the pot into the mains socket, or you are hiding a one-time use battery pack at the bottom of the pot, or the pot itself is a battery (with maybe some zinc and copper plating in the bottom part that starts working when you add water and "electrolyte" flows down from the plant food) that once it depletes will become useless.... Or what I think is the real situation, is that you will simply take people's money and fail deliver anything at all.
BiooTeam is likely trolling the site trying to rouse responses and wasting our time. The only option I think makes sense is not to waste our time even debating this stupidity, and flagging the campaign... although IndieGogo continues to prove they are complacent in criminal activity and only US government legal action will stop them (or at least move them to foreign soil).
Somebody should inform Thunderf00t about this ridiculous idea...
Watch this magnesium copper battery using the damp soil as an electrolyte to barely power a Joule thief:
There are a bunch of other videos using galvanized steel (which has a zinc coating) and copper or various other anode/cathode combinations and using wet soil as electrolyte, the plant is generally irrelevant to the battery function except that it forces you to keep adding water which may be required to refresh the electrolyte. But all of them power LED's.... which have piss-ant power requirements relative to charging a phone.... Orders of magnitude difference.
Here's a good video you can even try to build it yourself... no plant needed:
But what is the current output? And if you add enough of them in parallel to boost current, and have enough in series to have reached your voltage range, how much capacity will you get from your battery until it is depleted? You cannot add water indefinitely. It is not just the electrolyte that gets depleted... the actual metal anode/cathode will be depleted and unless you "recharge" the battery by reversing the process, your cells will become useless.
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