Comments on: GREEN LIGHT: Botanical Lamp, Terrarium, Air Filter All-In-One

By: John

John — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 14:24:18 +0000

It is a beautiful, highly elegant design, but the functionality and practicality is in question. The idea is good, by the realisation needs work

By: akron

akron — Tue, 22 May 2007 03:01:26 +0000

I heard that using monochromatic light will make your plants go black. a superior led grow light can be found at http://www.fuzzlight.com

By: dubious

dubious — Wed, 09 May 2007 22:31:00 +0000

the vegetation shown are mosses, not plants
while intriguing and beautiful, mosses do not lend well to cultivation, particularly indoors. i’d be curious to know if the designers are able to sustain growth over a period of time or whether the mosses were simply transplanted form the wild to begin their eventual decline. if this is actually viable, kudos.

By: amy lou

amy lou — Wed, 09 May 2007 22:06:40 +0000

I think it’s awesome! anything ANYTHING that gets a living breathing green creature in peoples lives is good, especially if it’s a necessary item like a lamp…oh and yes plants happen to be green…maybe just not as “green” as some people like…but it’s an amazing design in it’s infancy…and the green light is a pretty swell looking infant SO THANKS INHABITAT!

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 09 May 2007 11:09:30 +0000

Ummm… it’s converting sunlight to electricity then converting back to light?! Am I missing something, or is that slightly inefficient? Lets see: Solar panels about 12% efficiency, give LEDs a generous 30% efficiency: gives about 3.6% overall efficiency. Plus the spectrum of the LED light is likely to be sub-optimal. Just stick the plants where the solar cells would be and you’d be helping a lot more! Or use a Fresnel lense and light tube/fibre optics. I must be missing something: this project isn’t green at all!

By: Russ

Russ — Tue, 08 May 2007 23:55:58 +0000

And how exactly do plants ‘filter’ the air? These little enclosures might make a few milligrams of oxygen an hour (if that) but I cant see them removing particulates, NOx, SOx or anything else. Carbon neutral? I guess making the enclosure and lights etc didn’t involve any CO2 or hydrocarbons. WOFTAM

By: tony

tony — Tue, 08 May 2007 22:20:14 +0000

LEDs can sustain plant growth, but the white ones are not the best.
see -> http://ledgrowlights.com/

By: Richie

Richie — Tue, 08 May 2007 13:41:31 +0000

Different, interesting… yes. Practical… no.

By: Harry Tams

Harry Tams — Tue, 08 May 2007 09:36:06 +0000

Most interesting. This one could change the world as we know it in more ways than one. Have used a 1 watt led 12v downlight for at least a year. It’s kind of blueish when used on its own. It has about 25 or so led’s in a standard size downlight housing. Is the spectrum of light emitted geniunely good enough for plant growth? Harry. Tasmania