Glowing Trees Kickstarter

I know that there are quite a few Kickstarter aficionados among us...

Did anyone else see this wacky upstart? It's pretty damn cool. A biotech team is splicing the bioluminescent genes carried by fireflies into common plants...ergo...glowing plants.

Any thoughts?

Plenty of people must think that it could be something of value, as it is killing it right now.

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Too bad it isn't possible to short kickstarter projects. What this group is attempting could easily have been tried a couple decades ago (the technology is pretty much the same). The reason nobody has bothered (at least as far as I'm aware) is that the bioluminescence is going to be WAY too faint. While the general idea of using plants as street lamps is theoretically possible, overcoming all the hurdles will require a Monsanto-level R&D budget (at a minimum).

 

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