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  • $\begingroup$ Would the piezoelectric effect be efficient enough, though? I've tried searching on google but, frankly, I don't know what half the units used to measure this mean. Thunder vibrations are often very low-pitched, at around 20Hz, and from what I know piezoelectricity works mostly at higher pitches. $\endgroup$ Commented 2 days ago
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    $\begingroup$ I was thinking the structure of the tree uses the wind mechanically to deliver the vibrations constantly, more so than thunder. In principle it does seem generate enough power that way. There is a paper here about utilizing aeroelastic flutter to generate electrical power and it looks like it'd create plenty of power to drive ATP production. - I'll drop in a more fanciful plan for using the lightning strike itself in a sec $\endgroup$ Commented 2 days ago
  • $\begingroup$ @NatureNerd I'd say that shifting the pitch arriving at the crystals isn't that hard to solve (or handwave) $\endgroup$ Commented 14 hours ago