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Re:Glowing Plants: Natural Lighting with no Electricity or CO2 by btr41n on Tuesday April 23, 2013 @01:34PM (#5596616)
As always, I'm a bit skeptical. Not that it can't be done, but how effective can these actually be? How many lumens will it produce? How long will the plants live? Will they produce more seeds? Is bioluminescence a dominant trait? Or will future generations of my night light glow dimmer? Oh the botany!
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Re:Glowing Plants: Natural Lighting with no Electricity or CO2 by fghh45sdfhr3 on Tuesday April 23, 2013 @01:46PM (#5596713)
I do not believe this can be something which you could use to read by. Light takes a lot of energy and biology does not waste energy. And plants don't even have the metabolism of a fly. This is very neat. I'll probably donate enough to get seeds. But I do not believe it is a light bulb replacement.
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