Generating enough light could be prohibitively expensive, unless cheap, renewable energy is available, and this appears to be rather a future aspiration than a likelihood for the near future.

除非有廉价可再生能源，否则制造足够光的成本可能会高得令人望而却步，而这似乎只是未来的愿望而非近期能实现的。

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In the future, they hope birds will live in the birdhouse and the heat of its green light will be used to keep birds warm in winter.

未来，他们希望鸟类能住在鸟窝里，鸟窝中绿光的热量可以用于给鸟类在冬天保暖。

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The technology, Strano said, could one day be used to light the rooms or even to turn trees into self-powered street lamps. In the future, the team hopes to develop a version of the technology that can be sprayed onto plant leaves in a one-off treatment that would last the plant's lifetime.

斯特拉诺表示，该技术将来可能用于房间照明，甚至可以将树木改造为自供电路灯。该团队希望未来可以开发此技术的新形式，用于喷洒植物叶片，一次操作，终生有效。

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"Today,as an advocate for the hungry and the hunted, the forgotten and the ignored, Mary Robinson has not only shone a light on human suffering, but illuminated a better future for our world,"

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But EDF was abandoned at the altar on August 1st, after two big British Energy shareholders decided that, in light of the likely future price of power, its offer was too low.

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