• pomegranatefern@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    Even if you do get this to produce appreciable amounts of light, this seems like a really good way to have these plants spread outside of their designated areas and fuck up wildlife even more than our artificial lighting does already.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
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      3 months ago

      Given that these plants would need to devote a significant amount of resources to store the energy in order to produce light, I would expect they would be outcompeted by regular plants that aren’t wasting their energy in the wild. Selection pressures generally favor efficient use of energy.