Comments on: Gold Nanoparticles Could Make Trees Glow Like Street Lights

By: neal bainbridge

neal bainbridge — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 19:51:00 +0000

Oh my.
Next we’ll be infusing the defunct streetlights to grow some sort of fungus that will produce oxygen to compensate the lack of oxygen the trees can no longer produce.. *sighs*

What a crock of she-eye’t.

By: Doug

Doug — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 17:52:24 +0000

First, the scientists try to turn trees into fuel to power the street lights.

Now, they cut out the middle-man and have the trees become the street lights.

Brilliant (in a reddish hue).

By: Tina Casey

Tina Casey — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 16:10:39 +0000

Joeseyryan: Thanks for your comment. You don’t need to be a scientist to foresee the potential in new forms of sustainable energy, just as you don’t need to be a computer programmer in order to use a computer. As necessary as they have been, fossil fuels have boxed us into a particular way of doing things and we are only just beginning to realize that there many alternative possibilities in our future.

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Name (required) — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 14:18:53 +0000

What a cool concept; I am by no means a scientist, and could barely be considered even a science-novice, but this article caught my eye and totally got me interested. Thank you for publishing int. I will definitely start following some of these ideas more closely. Ii truly hope we start taking these innovative ideas more seriously instead of allowing the status quoa to continue to kill us.

By: Tina Casey

Tina Casey — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 00:01:52 +0000

Hi Theepan thanks for the info. Shorthanding kind of comes with the territory but it can sometimes lead to unclear or imprecise wording so feel free to catch me up next time you spot something!

By: Theepan

Theepan — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 04:02:10 +0000

While reading this article i was bothered by the misuse of words for light, red light is longer wavelengths not shorter in comparison to uv, and thus lower energy packets of energy. So just for future reference high wavelength does not make any sense, use high energy or higher frequency light. However all aside I found this finding to be amazing and really blew my mind of whats possible and i didn’t even think of using trees in such a way.

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Fri, 12 Nov 2010 03:46:23 +0000

[…] Gold Nanoparticles Could Make Trees Glow Like Street Lights – “Scientists in Taiwan have discovered that gold nanoparticles can induce luminescence in the leaves of plants, making them emit a reddish glow. They came up with the process while searching for a way to create high-efficiency lighting that is similar to LED technology, but without the use of toxic chemicals such as phosphor powder. One use envisioned by lead researcher Dr. Yen-Hsun Su is the cultivation of gold-treated roadside trees that would provide street lighting while saving energy and absorbing carbon dioxide…” […]