Re: Could human skin be photosynthetic?



On Oct 8, 12:41 pm, Uncle Al <Uncle...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
3) Tell us how to power a photosynthetic animal without frying it
outright at any frequency, microwave to visible to Co-60 gamma.

It was stated elsewhere in the thread that the solar intensity is 1000
watts per square meter. I'm pretty sure that's only 100 watts per
square meter.

The mere fact that plants aren't mobile and (unlike Ents) don't walk
should have settled the issue, even before getting to the detailed
Physics. If there is a way, nature would have found it by now.

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