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This should greatly improve the efficiency of growing marihuana indoors. The terrible efficiency of photosynthesis of 1% (as stated in the paper) means that cur
by samus 4y ago
This should greatly improve the efficiency of growing marihuana indoors. The terrible efficiency of photosynthesis of 1% (as stated in the paper) means that currently 99% of the electricity* used to light up the plants is wasted!
Apart from drugs, other grass-roots indoor farming efforts will also profit from this because this approach allows separating the carbon-fixing from the actual farming.
Edit: to expand on the previous paragraph, there could be a business opportunity for large-scale carbon-fixing businesses that sell the acetate to farms. At least after the kinks in the growing procedures have been figured out.
*: the lamps themselves also don't have 100% efficiency
- Teever 4y agoYour comment about the efficiency isn't correct because you haven't taken into account the fact that grow lights do not emit the same spectrum as the sun. This is even more relevant with LED grow lights as the diodes are emitting specific wavelengths of light.
- DennisP 4y agoCombine this new technique with grow lights, and maybe we do even better.