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To: RetiredNow who wrote (4034)1/8/2009 9:24:08 AM
From: Road Walker  Respond to of 86356
 
Cool!



To: RetiredNow who wrote (4034)1/8/2009 11:46:12 AM
From: Eric  Respond to of 86356
 
I think this is great in the long run for a few things.

Unfortunately when you look at plants of any kind including algae (photosynthesis) they only convert a very small fraction of the sun's energy to stored matter. They only use a small portion of the visible spectrum, let alone infrared where the real energy is.