Re: What would you do to save the environment?

On Sep 29, 4:35 pm, Jim Burns <burns...@xxxxxxx> wrote:

Will this new technology actually be more efficient? I have
to wonder.

You wonder if humans can design, from understanding first principles,
something better (in an efficiency sense) than what has been cobbled
together, warped, patched, and tinkered with by the random process of
mutation coupled with natural selection? I'm pretty certain we can do
better. The most efficient photosynthesis I've ever found reference to
is about 3% of the incident energy ends up locked in a usable form.
Meanwhile, really really simple PV arrays can manage 20% or higher.

Evolution is not the best way to get an efficnet, working design. It
just happens to be the most commonly availible one, and has a
significant head start.

--
Brian Davis

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