Re: Colors of alien plants -- Scientific American

In article <fstphu$1l9$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Eivind Kjorstad  <eivindorama@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>Typical vegetation convert at best 1% of the incoming photons to usable 
>energy. This compares pretty poorly with even todays crude solar-cells 
>which can easily do 10% and we've got designs that in principle should 
>be able to go to 30-50% (depending on your level of optimism)

Drop a 10% plant into our 1% biosphere and it should provide lots of
story potential--kudzu to the nth power....

Mary Kuhner mkkuhner@[EMAIL PROTECTED]