Abstract
Recently, there has been a surge in the development of new electric energy sources in a wide variety fields. Examples of such energy sources are the fuel cell-, biomass-, plasma-, solar-, and wind-power generators, among others. In the present research, an attempt is made to apply the phytogenic potential as a new electric energy source, and the possibility to utilize this electric power without environmental disruption is examined. However, the maximum values of the potential were approximately 250 mV for most of the plants studied in the present experiments, and thus do not satisfy the criteria required for practical use, such as the drive voltage for an electronic circuit. For use in a practical application, it is, therefore, necessary to boost the potential value. Generally, however, it is difficult to boost the value of the potential. That is, the potential value is not boosted by simply connecting each phytogenic potential in series. The present paper describes how the potential value can be boosted by the use of special techniques, resulting in a successful boosted potential value of approximately 2.1 V. An electric double layer capacitor was charged with the electricity, and produced a luminescence of the light emission diode for approximately 3 minutes.
