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That comment does not make sense. Do you mean the sun emits it's peak intensity at green (I don't believe that is true either, but at least it would make a phys

That comment does not make sense. Do you mean the sun emits it's peak intensity at green (I don't believe that is true either, but at least it would make a physically sensical statement). To clarify why the statement does not make sense, the energy of light is directly proportional to its frequency so saying that green is the highest energy light the sun emits is saying the sun does not emit any light at frequency higher than green, i.e. no blue light no UV... That's obviously not true.

antonvs 9mo ago
> Do you mean the sun emits its peak intensity at green That's presumably what they mean. It's more or less true, except the color in question is at the green / yellow transition. See e.g. https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/courses-images-archive-read-only/wp-content/uploads/sites/887/2015/05/23213357/CNX_Chem_06_01_Blackbody.jpg https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/courses-images-archive-re...
bmitc 9mo ago
> Do you mean the sun emits it's peak intensity at green (I don't believe that is true either, but at least it would make a physically sensical statement). Yes, that's what I meant, as I was sloppy with my language, and it's definitely true. https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/physics-and-astronomy/solar-spectra https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/physics-and-astronomy/s...