This document discusses the concept of using genetically engineered glowing trees as a replacement for traditional street lights. It proposes modifying trees by applying fluorescent substances to their roots, leaves, and trunks so that they glow in the dark without needing electricity. This could save on energy costs while providing scenic beauty, oxygen production, and reducing light pollution in cities. The document outlines the process of creating glowing tree paint and water and implanting these into existing trees.
3. Introduction
Glowing trees Vs street lights
Functionality
Implementation
Advantages
Summary
4. Engineering nature to sustain our needs
is exactly what fluorescent plant aims to
do.
It is a glow-in-the-dark plant made using
fluorescents, phosphorescent or quinine.
Quinine is naturally occurring substance
taken from the bark of a tree known as
cinchona.
It could possibly replace traditional
lighting and perhaps even create glow-
in-the-dark trees that would replace the
common street light.
5. Street lights are an important part of our urban
infrastructure — they light our way home and make the
roads safe at night.
But what if we could create natural street lights that don’t
need electricity to power them?
The idea of using glowing trees to replace street lights is
an ingenious one.
It will not only save on electricity costs, provide oxygen
and scenic beauty, but it could also greatly reduce light
pollution in major cities.
6. A tree becomes fluorescent when absorbed light
photons release photons of another wavelength.
This happens when the absorbed photons are in
the ultraviolet range and the triggered emission is
in the visible spectrum, a substance will glow
under black light or simply will glow in the dark.
7. First, prepare glowing water and glowing paint
using water+fluorescent and paint+fluorescent,
respectively.
Then pour the fluorescent water all around the
bottom of tree. So that the roots can take up that
water and pass it on towards the leaves to make
them glow in the dark.
After that spray the leaves with fluorescent paint
and also apply paint to some parts of the tree trunk
to amplify the effect.
8. Electricity cost can be saved.
It provides scenic beauty.
It produces oxygen in the day.
It helps to reduce light pollution due to street lights in major
cities.
It helps with the global warming issue too.
Its mostly natural so cost of implementation will be very low.
A bulb which runs on electricity for 12 hours will consume 720
watt/hr.
But instead a fluorescent powder costs 3$ per kg, which can
be used to make fluorescent paint and water for 20 trees.
It will reduce deforestation as we will plant many new trees.
9. We are cutting down trees to facilitate ourselves but now we
can engineer them in a way that they are beneficial and also
can be adjusted with our urban lifestyle.
In addition, to that they become useful during the night too.
We also get to accommodate nature in our society.
This idea also helps to reduce many of the main global
problems due to deforestation.
And a point to be noted is that we have to use trees with
leaves of light shade. This will help in achieving a better
result.