Biochemical bulbs
Scientists managed to create a fundamentally new light source that does not require electricity. It is possible that in a few years the biochemical lighting will be used as widely as LED is now used.
Bioluminescence is known since 1668, but so far no one has been able to use it for the benefit of man.
Luminous organisms live both on land (fireflies, luminous mushrooms) and in the sea (luminous mollusks, fish, jellyfish, plankton).
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Scientists of the Novosibirsk Institute of Genetic Engineering in collaboration with the Biotechnology Faculty of Moscow State University have succeeded in creating luminous microorganisms that give an intense white light. When they were created, the genes of fireflies and jellyfish Aequorea Victoria were used.
But that is not all!
The world's first biochemical lamp has been developed, which is a sealed ball that contains the whole "universe" - the atmosphere, the nutrient medium and millions of luminous microorganisms.
To work the lamp you need only natural sunlight in small volumes (daylight in a room with one window in cloudy weather for two hours a day is enough).
According to the creators of such a lamp will work at least five years. According to the calculations of scientists after this time, the self-reproduction of microorganisms begins to decrease due to mutations and the lamp gradually dies away.
Biochemical bulb gives about 10 lm of light. This is not much, but sixty of these bulbs can replace a 60-watt incandescent lamp and they are enough to fully illuminate a small room (for example, a bathroom or toilet).
The creators of the revolutionary source of lighting do not stop there. At the same time, work is underway to launch a biochemical bulb into mass production and new genetic experiments: scientists hope to increase the brightness of the bulb and increase the time it works.
I will try in the near future to get a sample of the biochemical lamp in order to test it in the lamptest.ru project. Very interesting, what's the spectrum and color rendering index?
upd .: Congratulations on the first of April! Of course it was a joke. But in every joke there is some truth, and I fully admit that such light sources may appear in the future.
© 2019, Alexey Nadyozhin
Bioluminescence is known since 1668, but so far no one has been able to use it for the benefit of man.
Luminous organisms live both on land (fireflies, luminous mushrooms) and in the sea (luminous mollusks, fish, jellyfish, plankton).
')
Scientists of the Novosibirsk Institute of Genetic Engineering in collaboration with the Biotechnology Faculty of Moscow State University have succeeded in creating luminous microorganisms that give an intense white light. When they were created, the genes of fireflies and jellyfish Aequorea Victoria were used.
But that is not all!
The world's first biochemical lamp has been developed, which is a sealed ball that contains the whole "universe" - the atmosphere, the nutrient medium and millions of luminous microorganisms.
To work the lamp you need only natural sunlight in small volumes (daylight in a room with one window in cloudy weather for two hours a day is enough).
According to the creators of such a lamp will work at least five years. According to the calculations of scientists after this time, the self-reproduction of microorganisms begins to decrease due to mutations and the lamp gradually dies away.
Biochemical bulb gives about 10 lm of light. This is not much, but sixty of these bulbs can replace a 60-watt incandescent lamp and they are enough to fully illuminate a small room (for example, a bathroom or toilet).
The creators of the revolutionary source of lighting do not stop there. At the same time, work is underway to launch a biochemical bulb into mass production and new genetic experiments: scientists hope to increase the brightness of the bulb and increase the time it works.
I will try in the near future to get a sample of the biochemical lamp in order to test it in the lamptest.ru project. Very interesting, what's the spectrum and color rendering index?
upd .: Congratulations on the first of April! Of course it was a joke. But in every joke there is some truth, and I fully admit that such light sources may appear in the future.
© 2019, Alexey Nadyozhin
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/446266/
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