Philips Bio-light creates mood lighting with bacteria (Cnet – Crave )
The Philips Bio-light concept produces light using bioluminescent bacteria.
(Credit: Philips)
In 2012, 100-watt incandescent bulbs will be a thing of the past, but fear
not, as there’s some great energy-efficient light bulb tech to illuminate the
way, ranging from compact fluorescent lights to LEDs to halogen bulbs and if
Philips has anything to do with it, bacteria-powered lights.
As part of its Microbial Home project, which also birthed the urban beehive,
Philips set about designing a natural lighting system based on biological
processes and what resulted was the Bio-light concept.
The system uses bioluminescent bacteria that feeds on methane and composted
material to produce a soft green light, not all that different from the light
emitted by fireflies and red tide. The bacteria is housed in a wall of hand-
blown glass cells and connected to a food source at the base through thin
silicon tubes. Using its Microbial Home ecosystem, one would use the … [Read
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