Trees Infused With Glowing Nanoparticles Could Replace Streetlights

[coolnezz]

Someday, This Tree Could Be Producing Its Own Light


Taiwanese researchers have come up with the elegant idea of replacing streetlights with trees, by implanting their leaves with gold nanoparticles. This causes the leaves to give off a red glow, lighting the road for passersby without the need for electric power. This ingenious triple threat of an idea could simultaneously reduce carbon emissions, cut electricity costs and reduce light pollution, without sacrificing the safety that streetlights bring.
As many good things do, this discovery came about by accident when the researchers were trying to create lighting as efficient as LEDs without using the toxic, expensive phosphor powder that LEDs rely on. The gold nanoparticles, shaped like sea urchins, put into the leaves of Bacopa caroliniana plants cause chlorophyll to produce the reddish luminescence.
In an added bonus, the luminescence will cause the leaves’ chloroplasts to photosynthesize, which will result in more carbon being captured from the air while the streets are lit. The next steps are to improve the efficiency of the bioluminescence and apply the technology to other biomolecules.

Trees Infused With Glowing Nanoparticles Could Replace Streetlights

[EarlZ]

This is cool, wish id still live to see this in action!

[p26]

Cool..mura na diay ta ani sa avatar..musiga ang mga punu-an. May unta kung mao man ni ang plano..

[cptn_star]

inig pamunga kay bombilya ang mogawas...haha...

kidding aside, i wonder how bright the actual light would be?

[likyam]

wa epek na diri pinas. kai nig butang palang ug gold nanoparticles ana, ibton lang nas mga kawatan diri nya i prenda. hahahaha. joke

[treize]

cool so it's no longer necessary to buy series lights for Christmas decors.. hehehe..

[[Avenging PIRANHA]]

wow this is nice so we can conserve electricity and the nature will replace on it i do hope that kind of tree naa na diri sa atoang nasod

[yhokz101]

pwede mao nalang ni ang itanom sa dalan para wala nay ngitngit na dalan? maka save pa sa lamp post.. hehehe pwede ba ni sa pinas?

[insomiac]

go green! nindot ni dah!

[babynforce]

nindot unta ni pero gold ni noh? ambot lng ayaw nlng e butang sa pinas kay hurot nag kawagtang