Artificial trees to be used to harvest solar-wind power

SolarBotanic is a company which researches and specializes in an emerging tech which is dubbed as biomimicry – which seeks to mimic nature and use nature-inspired methods to solve human problems. They have developed Energy Harvesting Trees. These are not the real trees that you find in your backyard, but fake ones. These trees have Nanoleafs which uses nanotechnology designed to capture the sun’s energy in photovoltaic and thermovoltaic cell and then convert this radiation into electricity. The trees also have twigs and branches which act as generators that produce electricity from movement of wind or rain. The company has got several patents and now seeking partners for funding and development. We still don’t have any details on what these trees actually look like.
[Engadget]