That is marvelous. I dislike genetic modification to make fruits & vegetables sweeter, bigger & more commercially attractive, but Geneticly modifying plants to this end is defenitely worthwhile.
I have thought about low energy, cold light sources before and thought of various systems:
Growing bioluminescent mushrooms in terraria and using them as lights in your house.
All the would require would be some liquid nutrients to be flooded into the substrate
& the air in the terraria to be refreshed every now and then & that can be done with a
low-power automated system. Light would be weak, but strong enough to illuminate a hallway
or small room enough to be able to see on a pitchblack night. And off course how magical
would such a lightsource be?
I've also thought of a system that uses certain Bioluminescent species of Dinoflagellates, a type of sea-Algae, that glow brightly whenever the water in which they float gets agitated by waves or fish.
Lingulodinium Polyedrum:
Noctiluca Scintillans:
If you were to use a piece of circulair glass tubing filled with these algae and salt-water, with a low-power, low-speed waterpump that
pumps the water & the algae around the circulair tube, you would also have a low-power lightsource based on Bioluminescense.
But these plants are just perfect. No electricity required whatsoever & gives off plenty of light, without heat. Are they commercially available to the public? Would they be pricey?