(urth) The green man is a fake

[Jeff Wilson]

On 1/16/2011 2:38 PM, James Wynn wrote:
>
>>>> Lee Berman-
>>>> The amount of sunlight hitting the area of human skin is not enough
>>>> energty to allow
>>>> homeothermy and movement.
>>
>> Jeff Wilson-
>> Preaching to the choir, though I hadn't posted about this since you
>> were yclept bsharp.
>
> Yes, but one must allow the possibility that artifically manufactured
> algae could leverage the sunlight to get more oomph.

Even at 100% conversion efficiency, each day a person-sized patch of 
sunlit earth receives about 1/30 of the energy a normally active person 
takes from a day's worth of food. Maybe it is used instead to synthesize 
dietary supplements to make it easier to be life-long vegans?

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Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
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