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Chinese Scientists Made Glowing Plants with Firefly DNA to Replace Streetlights
(www.zmescience.com)
this post was submitted on 11 Aug 2026
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There’s an American company doing similar, a couple years ago I had some sort of flowering plant that glowed, I think it was a petunia, it was awesome but I’m not great at keeping plants alive.
Replacing street lamps is a hilarious fantasy though. They glow enough to look fucking awesome but not enough to see.
if you just need to see where the right-of-way is some dimly glowing stuff can replace streetlights
That’s true, they could help with that. Not enough to light the street, but enough to show you where the street isn’t.