[FRIAM] Trees as wind farms.

[Barry MacKichan]

I would think the energy is too dispersed to be collectable. At risk of 
bending this infant thread … you reminded me of John Muir:

It has been said that trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their 
imprisonment rooted in the ground. But they never seem so to me. I never 
saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, 
and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do. They go 
wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like 
ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and 
through space heaven knows how fast and far!

—Barry

On 27 Jun 2023, at 11:38, Nicholas Thompson wrote:

> Sitting here at the farm, watching the Normandy poplars bend in the 
> Southeast wind, I am led to wonder why trees don’t make use of wind 
> energy. There must be a tangible amount of heat generated by the 
> bending of branches. Is there no way to use that heat for, for 
> instance, convection of fluids within the tree?
>
> Or do they? And I am just too ill educated to know it.
> Nick
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