by -O-uknow on July 30th, 2009

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If plants were really efficient wouldn't they be black not green?

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by yellowJZ on July 30th, 2009
No, they would probably burn in the sun. They only need a few specific spectrums of light.
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- .. because they are not efficient if they were they would use the full spectrum but nothing in nature really is.
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  by -O-uknow on July 30th, 2009
- You say they would burn but I don't think so because nature adapts.
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  by -O-uknow on July 30th, 2009
- yeah.. they adapted to be not black..
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  by yellowJZ on July 31st, 2009
- I think, that the medium spectrum of light, which I THINK AND KNOW is green ,is the colour of creation.................Art
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by granpa on July 30th, 2009
I guess you can think of chlorophyll as an antenna. I guess its just hard to create an antenna that absorbs all frequencies.
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