The New Street Lamps?

[longknife]

An interesting story @ video from the HuffPost @ In The Not So Distant Future, Bioluminescent Trees Could Replace Street Lights

Why not? Did you know that your plasma screen came from Marine biology research?

 

[strollingbones]

The glow-in-the-dark plant concept has been around for a while. A University of Cambridge team modified genetic material from fireflies and the luminescent bacterium Vibrio fischeri to boost the production of light-yielding enzymes that can ultimately be inserted into genomes -- they called it BioBricks. A Kickstarter campaign for glowing plants using no electricity was funded just last year. And earlier this month, we read about algae street lamps that store energy produced through photosynthesis in the day to generate light at night. Clearly, interest is high.


Read more at Bioluminscent trees could light up our streets | I Fucking Love Science

somehow glowing trees or the concept of glowing trees freaks me out....

 

[flacaltenn]

One of the groups developing this tech was advertising for donors on some CrowdSourcing project.
For donors about $500 -- you could get some seeds for the first successful versions.. Be the first in the neighborhood to have them.. Probably attract bugs like crazy..