Cactus power!

Created by popular request. Share what you know about man's past and present use of cacti.
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Cactus power!

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cool!

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Post by Neko Bazu »

Coincidentally, I was musing over the possibility of photosynthetic power sources on my way home from work on Friday! Curse those scientists, being four steps ahead of me :evil: :lol:

Fascinating stuff though; I wonder how viable it might end up being as a long-term energy source? 9 micro-watts isn't a lot of power, but with a big field of cacti under full equatorial sunlight, it'd accumulate quite nicely and be pretty self-sustaining!
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pretty neet stuff
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I guess if you ran out of gas, you could throw your cacti in your gas tank! :lol:
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That's very interesting!
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