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Biology is stunningly efficient, but it's hard to optimize further. To get really high yields you usually need industrial processes.
by jfengel 2y ago
Biology is stunningly efficient, but it's hard to optimize further. To get really high yields you usually need industrial processes.
- wffurr 2y agoSolar panels are ten times more efficient than photosynthesis.
- joak 2y agoToday it's 10x more efficient, but it could theoretical get 100x more efficient, worth working on it.
- tbrownaw 2y agoCan it? I thought panels were well over 10% efficiency these days. Plus I'm pretty sure there's a hard limit somewhere below 100%.
- moebrowne 2y agoIt's called the Shockley–Queisser limit. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shockley%E2%80%93Queisser_limit https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shockley%E2%80%93Queisser_li...
- Layvier 2y agoisn't the self replicating property of life a huge benefit though?