The Natural Fuse System

The simplest system is one Natural Fuse unit and one 9V appliance on your desktop - we'll provide you with a lamp, a radio or a fan. You can choose to be "selfless" or "selfish" in your consumption, but remember to keep the water bottles topped up so that the Natural Fuse unit can take care of watering the plants as necessary.

By networking Natural Fuses together, the plants are able to share their capacity and take advantage of carbon-sinking-surplus in the system since not all Natural Fuses will be in use at any one time.

If people cooperate on energy expenditure then the plants thrive (and everyone may use more energy); but if they don't then the network starts to kill plants, thus diminishing the network's electrical capacity.

If systematic breakdown occurs 1 random plant will die, it may not be your own. 

I found this system quite extraordinary and I thought it related quite well to my initial concept. This system works on the mindset that if one person is being selfish be using excessive energy than someone else will suffer. And really we all will suffer through selfish use of energy eventually.

Both concepts use the thriving or dimishing nature of the plant to send a message to the user. In this case, it sends the message that people are still being selfish with energy, and leads the user to question there actions, are they being selfish enough to kill someone else's plant? 

In my concept the message was one of unhappiness which told the user that there friend or family member needed some company. By using something living, it  makes the message that much more powerful.