Solar Charging Tree

photo: Yarel Yair – Design Studio

Love this idea. This is showing some real promise instead of all the talk. Let’s get this thing going.

I have seen similar fake trees in California (palm trees of course) used to provide power for cell phone towers. They actually look pretty good and they blend in reall well with the surroundings.

Hopefully we will see shapes like oak trees, fruit trees, redwoods (probably too big) but the list is almost endless. Much better looking than some ordinary ugly stone/plastic/steel monolith towers all over the city.

A couple of ideals:

1 - these trees could be charging stations for pedestrians to charge their cell phones, cameras, mp3 players, etc.

2 – solar powered vehicles should have solar film built into their skin so we are not forced to maintain coal powered electricity generating power plants.

Now, if only we could get more widespread access to good-looking, longer-distance vehicles.