By merging a light producing compound with plants, a team of Dutch engineers envisions illuminating city streets with trees that glow at night.
http://www.iflscience.com/plants-and...t-our-streets/
By merging a light producing compound with plants, a team of Dutch engineers envisions illuminating city streets with trees that glow at night.
http://www.iflscience.com/plants-and...t-our-streets/
Common (05-28-2018),MisterVeritis (05-28-2018),Peter1469 (05-28-2018),Trumpster (06-05-2018)
Trumpster (06-05-2018)
This is the kind of innovation that would make electric cars viable, in my opinion.
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Captdon (05-28-2018)
Just a lot gayer.
Search:Why your streetlights won't be replaced by glowing trees any time soon.
Neither the biochemistry nor the energetics seem to work out.
"There's just one small problem: as planed the plants won't glow. At least not without a fertilizer that costs $200 a gram. Even if the team were to overcome this hitch, trees would probably never generate enough light to do away with a street lamp."
Call your state legislators and insist they approve the Article V convention of States to propose amendments.
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Trumpster (06-05-2018)