http://cleantechnica.com/2012/06/17/dod-funds-biomimicry-research-on-firefly-lights/ Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Tue, 30 Dec 2014 02:37:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 http://cleantechnica.com/2012/06/17/dod-funds-biomimicry-research-on-firefly-lights/#comment-155454 Wed, 20 Mar 2013 14:18:06 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=39139#comment-155454 […] consumers, microhybrid vehicles accelerating fuel savings, geothermal picking up steam, and biomimicry leaving its imprint on clean […]

]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2012/06/17/dod-funds-biomimicry-research-on-firefly-lights/#comment-124378 Tue, 19 Jun 2012 14:22:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=39139#comment-124378 Japanese soldiers during WWII reportedly used powdered extracts of fireflies or glow worms to read maps in the night. They only added water to make the extract glow. Perhaps this research would provide us with OLEDs that would glow using only chemical energy and no electric power. HG Wells book, “Journey to the Moon”, mentioned ant lie creatures called Selenites using  flowing blue chemiluminsence liquid  to light up their caverns. 

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