Glowing trees save electricity

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   Stacie Lposted 13 years ago

   Glowing trees to replace street lamps
   Biologically based LEDs could be used to make trees illuminate sidewalks
   The golden glow of street lights could soon be replaced by the green fluorescence of tree leaves. Scientists from the Academia Sinica and the National Cheng Kung University in Taipei and Tainan have implanted glowing, sea urchin shaped gold nanoparticles, known as bio light emitting diodes, or bio LEDs, inside the leaves of a plant.
   
   The new nanoparticles could replace the electricity powered street light with biologically powered light that removes CO2 from the atmosphere 24 hours a days.
   
   http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40355608/ns … ?gt1=43001
   they save electricity and look really cool!
   

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      qwarkposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      Stacie...WOW! See! There's no limit to what man can do if he lasts long enuf put his curiosity and imagination to work for the good of us all.
      The possibilities are endless!
      Qwark

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   Urbane Chaosposted 13 years ago

   That's just wild.. Would be cool though if they could do it!

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   kirstenblogposted 13 years ago

   That is just crazy stuff! Next thing you know food replicators will be a realistic invention for the not so distant future. Man kids today are going to see some crazy stuff happen in this old world of ours

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   kmackey32posted 13 years ago

   Thats awesome. We just got all are street lights replaced but they dont look like those.

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