Can we call it the Nirnroot
I think the idea is neat but I can’t really see how this would work in practice. Bioluminescence isn’t exactly bright (not enough to replace street lamps), and wouldn’t the plant be burning a lot of energy to keep it going?
i think that it would be a faint glow, probably not enough to do as a sole light source, but still nice feeling.
Bioluminescence is actually decently bright when your eyes adjust to a none street light lit area! I assume though these will be used along the lines of lining sidewalks so even the dim light gives you a sense of the boundary’s of your path
As for energy consumption I don’t have any data on how much food these plants need but I cant imagine it being wildly excessive?
an LED bright enough to lit up your room clearly has maybe around 30 watts, so that’s less than 1 kWh if you operate it all day. i assume a small LED (status indication LED) consumes maybe less than 1 W? So that would be 0,03 kWh per day, or about 6 g of sugar. I assume plants would be at a similar energy level, maybe even dimmer?
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