（伦敦9月3日下午4点05分） - SolarBotanic公司希望其革命性的新权力，绿色能源运动产生塑料树的概念，它利用纳米技术太阳能转换为电能。

能量收集树是由薄膜和纳米最新环绕着主干架构之上材料。总部位于伦敦的公司没有透露将如何使用的材料，使树，在设计上的研发仍然阶段，但公司正处于再生塑料和橡胶材料的范围看。

“我们正试图找到一个载体，使这部电影接双方光能，”总裁哈里里根告诉 欧洲塑料新闻。 “这件事，并且从来没有做过，甚至没有与太阳能电池板。”

这些树是为了利用三个主要类型的纳米技术：光电，thermovoltaics和piezovoltaic。光伏光直接转换为电能; thermovoltaics热能转换为电能，并piezovoltaics动能转化为电能。

水冲了对能源树木寄予厚望，特别是因为它们的目的是融入自然环境。

“我们有一些抵抗绿色能源设备很多，例如风力发电场，特别是在英国，”他说。 “但是，你不会介意在你的花园其中一个东西，因为它看起来只是另一棵树。”

他说，SolarBotanic可能成为推动对清洁能源的重要工具，并声称，平均树的和六平方米篷，可以创造足够的能量，为一个普通家庭的需要。

该公司想象道旁种植世界各地的主要道路的能源收获树。据估计，大约32,000 SolarBotanic树木与法国的巴黎放置到里昂高速公路可能会导致该国减少14.5万，每年排放二氧化碳吨二氧化碳排放量。

Corrigan说SolarBotanic已投资树木200万美元，希望投资于原型，这对于上市，在未来6个月内再200万美元，300万美元。

这个概念已经引起一些“大公司利益”，以及美国，韩国和日本政府，他补充说。

英文原文

LONDON (Sept. 3, 4:05 p.m) -- SolarBotanic Ltd. hopes to revolutionize the green energy movement with its new power-generating plastic tree concept, which uses nanotechnology to convert solar energy to electricity.

The Energy Harvesting Trees are made up of thin films and nano-materials built around an artificial trunk structure. The London-based firm is not disclosing what materials it will use to make the tree, as the design is still at the R&D stage, but the company is looking at a range of recycled plastics and rubber materials.

“We are trying to find a carrier that will allow the film to pick up light energy from both sides,” CEO Harry Corrigan told European Plastics News. “That’s something that has never been done before, not even with solar panels.”

The trees are designed to utilise three major types of nano-technologies: photovoltaics, thermovoltaics and piezovoltaic. Photovoltaics directly convert light to electricity; thermovoltaics convert heat to electricity; and piezovoltaics convert kinetic energy to electricity.

Corrigan has high hopes for the energy trees, especially as they are designed to blend into the natural environment.

“There is a lot of resistance to some green energy devices, for example wind farms, especially in the UK,” he says. “But you wouldn’t mind one of these in your garden as it looks like just another tree.”

He says SolarBotanic could become a vital tool in the push for clean energy, claiming an average tree, with a canopy of 6 square meters could create enough energy to provide for the needs of an average household.

The firm imagines planting Energy Harvesting Trees alongside major roads across the world. It estimates that around 32,000 SolarBotanic trees placed alongside France's Paris-to-Lyon highway could lead to the country reducing its carbon footprint by 145,000 metric tonnes of carbon dioxide per year.

Corrigan says SolarBotanic has invested $2 million in the trees and is hoping to invest another $2 million to $3 million in the prototype, which is due for launch in the next six months.

The concept has already drawn interest from several “large companies” as well as the US, South Korean and Japanese governments, he adds.