Headline:
plants which could be used as street lights
Actual article:
Liu acknowledged that the plants “are still far from providing functional illumination, as their luminescence intensity remains too weak for practical lighting applications".
It’s not even knew, bioluminescent plants have been a thing for a decade. They emit a soft glow, but the idea of street lights has always been a joke.
Arguably this isn’t even bioluminescence. The researchers created nanoparticles of the chemical used in glow in the dark toys (strontium aluminate) and injected it into the plants. It only glows for a few hours after no longer being exposed to sunlight, and the material leaves the plants after 25 days and has to be reinjected.
I don’t see how this isn’t a dead end research path.
I would love some glow in the dark plants.
They will go well with a florescent bunny
