On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 11:19:24PM +1200, LizR wrote: > Is it possible that plants are actually efficient in other parts of the > spectrum that we can't see? Maybe they utilise a lot of infra red and > ultraviolet, and the fact that there is a missed opportunity in visible > green is a relatively insignificant blip? > > After all we only see less than one light octave. There's a LOT of EM > radiation out there we can't detect. > > Or am I barking up the wrong tree? :-) >
Not really - the peak of the solar spectrum is yellow light. The IR and UV portions are relatively small components, and what little there is is further absorbed by water vapour and the ozone layer respectively. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics hpco...@hpcoders.com.au University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au Latest project: The Amoeba's Secret (http://www.hpcoders.com.au/AmoebasSecret.html) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
