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How to obtain energy in the cleanest way is one of the most crucial questions to be tackled by Science and Technology. How much time remains for the depletion of natural resources? Can we afford continue with our current energy system?
We are looking forward to develop an environmentally friendly (CO2 sink), zero-energy-cost biological biolamp. We believe that Biolamps are a very promising new field of energy with lots of application in different contexts. Bacterial bioluminescence is a source of cold light, which means it is one of the most efficient light producing processes known to mankind as it produces practically NO HEAT!
In this section we want to emphasize the benefits of inverting in such energy systems:

• It is very promising as a clean, cheap and respectful with the environment way to have light → supplied by Sun. It acts as a CO2 sink and as an oxygen provider.

• We can have it in our houses, in hospitals, industries and street as lighting system.

• It can provide autonomous illumination at enclosed vessels far from civilization, such as ships and spaceships, where it can also contribute to the CO2/O2 balance for inhabited modules in space, the Moon or Mars. Very useful in submarines and/or oceanographic submersibles, deep or night diving → It emits a light with an identical wavelength to the one what bioluminescent marine organisms have, with it we won’t alarm or stress marine creatures.

• If we develop a cell-wise array for the bioluminescent compartment, it would be able to work as “bacterial screens” similar those proposed by the iLCD project (iGEM Valencia team 2009), with application in TVs, cinematography…

• As a solar powered system (independent form external input of sugars), it is cheaper than older models of bioluminescent lamps.

• It lacks electrical intermediaries from the light absorption to the light emmision. This means that without inefficient energy transformations between the energy source and the output, the whole system is possibly one of the most energy-efficient path for an illumination source powered by solar-origin energy.

Conclusion: the economical, ecological and functional potential results are wide and interesting so they can revolutionize the lighting industry and propel the development of new technologies related to biotechnology and as source of resources for obtaining new forms of renewable energy.The project insights new developments in synthetic ecology, such as further interspececific cell-talk and powering modules.