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Re:Trees impregnated with gold might someday line city streets by mitko on Monday November 15, 2010 @08:47AM (#1906198)
Happily there are too many people that haven't heard that things cannot be done, so they attempt... and do them.

To me this seems more like a proof of concept article, yet, it opens an area of research which may in fact succeed after some time. And there are a so many easy ways to make something like this hard to steal- I won't go into details because this is not the important here.

Re:Trees impregnated with gold might someday line city streets by dnautics on Monday November 15, 2010 @10:43AM (#1906591)
or you could just use flourescent proteins instead of gold. The project seems more like a solution looking for an answer, honestly.