{"id":127945,"date":"2021-09-22T01:23:13","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T08:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/glow-in-the-dark-plants-could-act-as-passive-lighting-for-public-spaces"},"modified":"2021-09-22T01:23:13","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T08:23:13","slug":"glow-in-the-dark-plants-could-act-as-passive-lighting-for-public-spaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/glow-in-the-dark-plants-could-act-as-passive-lighting-for-public-spaces","title":{"rendered":"Glow-in-the-dark plants could act as passive lighting for public spaces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/glow-in-the-dark-plants-could-act-as-passive-lighting-for-public-spaces.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A decent chunk of energy usage goes towards lighting, so scientists at MIT are developing a new kind of passive lighting \u2013 glow-in-the-dark plants. In the latest experiment, the team has made them glow much brighter than the first generation plants, without harming their health.<\/p>\n<p>The emerging field of \u201cplant nanobionics\u201d involves embedding nanoparticles into plants to give them new abilities. Past work by the MIT team has created plants that can send electrical signals when <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/plant-water-leaf-sensor\/52150\/\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">they need water<\/a>, spinach that could be used to <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/nanobionic-spinach-detect-explosives-carbon-nanotubes-mit\/46216\/\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">detect explosives<\/a>, and watercress that <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/glowing-plants-mit\/52613\/\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">glows in the dark<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As interesting as that last one was, the glow wasn\u2019t particularly bright \u2013 about on par with those plastic glowing stars many of us stuck to our ceilings as kids. That\u2019s a cool novelty but not much help for the ultimate use case of passive lighting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A decent chunk of energy usage goes towards lighting, so scientists at MIT are developing a new kind of passive lighting \u2013 glow-in-the-dark plants. In the latest experiment, the team has made them glow much brighter than the first generation plants, without harming their health. The emerging field of \u201cplant nanobionics\u201d involves embedding nanoparticles into [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1499,1497,1495,4,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cyborgs","category-energy","category-health","category-nanotechnology","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}