On Saturday, November 15, 2014 6:25:37 PM UTC, John Clark wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 5:50 PM, <[email protected] <javascript:>> wrote: > > >> > photosynthesis in this universe always finds the most efficient >> path where there are many others. >> > > That is incorrect. Using natural sunlight the maximum theoretical > efficiency in turning water and CO2 into glucose and free oxygen > (photosynthesis) is 11%. For real plants the specific biochemical steps > used varies according to species and so the efficiency ranges from 3 to 6%, > nowhere near the maximum. But this shouldn't be surprising, Evolution never > finds the perfect solution to a problem because it doesn't need to, it just > needs to find a solution that's better than the competition. > > By the way, typical solar cells are about 20% efficient, and some very > exotic (and very expensive) ones can reach 40%. Which just goes to show > that human intelligent design beats the hell out of random mutation and > natural selection even though it had 4 billion years to work on the problem > and we've only been working on it for a decade or two. >
Well...I was definitely bluffing in some significant way. And you definitely called it, so the first hand is yours :o) The sense I was bluffing is that I don't have the knowledge at the level to actually understand the assertion I'm making. But...what I do have is a really intelligent quantum theorist...a young guy I saw first on the telly in some sort of intelligence competition. He won. He was also the most modest and definitely did his dutiful best to explain his enormous intellect away as "in physics we have to solve puzzles like this routinely so I know all the tricks". Then I saw him again in this other show about photosynthesis, or that included reference to that. And he is the one that clearly states exactly what I stated to Liz. Bluff called. I shall have to pay up for you both now. I'll work out what his name is or what the show was, and get the youtube if possible and/or email him and get him to stick his head round the door to account for himself. He'll probably be up for it. I'll be back -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
