thomas malloy wrote:
R C Macaulay wrote:
Howdy Jones, You don't miss much, do you?
Ever wonder how UV plays a role in the sun's productive release of
light energy.. well.. err.. heat.. err.. radiance.. err. Whay do you
suppose that is eminated by the sun? A prepetual motion machine on the
order of a "Rube Goldberg".. or.... hmmm. Could we be examining
Have you ever heard the story about growing plants in the dark? You
place a solar collector in the sun and run a wire to a metallic plate
over the plants, which are in the basement. It was reported that they
grow.
Reported by who? Got a reference?
Since chlorophyll responds to two frequency bands, both in visible
light, and since chlorophyll is the material plants use to transduce
light energy into chemical energy (in the form of bound electrons in an
above ground state which can be used to push chemical reactions "up the
energy hill") it would be remarkable indeed if they could grow "in the
dark" using only RF frequencies or lower.
Hence, a reference would be interesting.
NB -- As an aside, it might be possible (and it wouldn't even be all
that surprising if it worked) to grow plants in the dark by feeding them
sugar water. Plants normally run on sugar manufactured in the leaves,
and there's plausible evidence that some plants grow better if watered
with a sugar solution. Never heard of anyone trying to grow them in the
dark that way, though (unless the folks with the metal plate in the
cellar were also trying something along this line).
