Turbine plants are any of the various
gengineered plant species
who have one or multiple turbines for exploiting the kinetic energy of
a moving fluid. The rotary motion is used to turn a generator or flex
piezoelectric plates and bars. However it's done, the energy is used to
build up organic molecules that are the plant's food. Some species are
engineered to feed the majority of their voltage into room temp or
higher superconducting polymer wires that can be tapped for
electricity. Aquatic turbine plants that grow in rivers, streams and
tidal regions have horizontal helical turbines. The terrestrial plant's
turbines are vertical and helical so that wind can blow from any
direction to spin them and in turn the generator that is connected to
the bottom of them. Some species aren't solitary entities once they've
had time to grow, and form dense thickets of power producing turbines.
They send out runners; or a tangled mass of roots, like a banyan
tree growing along the surface of the ground. Given enough time an
entire continent or world can be covered in a plain of living wind
turbines. They grow up mountains and cliffs, and when the woody runners
grow
down into rivers to spread to the other side the section under the
water grows horizontal or vertical helical turbines.
Other varieties are engineered to live on the ocean floor and
run off thermal vents, or simply ocean currents. Some oceanic varieties
live on the surface, using ocean thermal energy differentials to
produce power. These plants are supported by CO2 gas bags floating on
the water. If the water is shallow enough they send down tendrils that
anchor themselves into the sand, mud or rock bottom; otherwise they use
sea anchors Ocean living variants disperse themselves rapidly by
sending off
seeds that are kept aloft by a small hydrogen gas bag. The gas bag is
also the plant's first leaf. These plants need leaves to fuel the
growth of the turbines before they become operational.
The first turbine plants are thought to have been gengineered
partly for the novelty and partly for the electrical power they
produce.
The first few turbine plant species have been traced back to at
least the 6th century a.t.; the exact date of their creation and the
name of their original author have
not been determined.
