OK hatch, that gave my record breaking, 6 day-old headache a run for it's money. I read the whole thing and I can't for the life of me, figure out what it is exactly that you're trying to teach me. I love ya man, and I respect your mad passion for LED lighting, but to be honest it's kinda like I kept waiting for a punch line that never came. Well, let me take another (and shorter) look I guess, hold on...
Nope, still no luck, sorry. I want to understand, really. I’m sorry for taking so much of your time, but I do appreciate you trying to help me get a hold on the physics behind this fascinating concept. I don’t know if it’s me or what (and it certainly could be), but something just aint clicking. If you don’t mind, I’d like to not give up on it just yet. Or maybe if you’ve had enough of me someone else can take over and pound it into my head.
I disagree with a thing or two in your thesis, but perhaps a different time. I guess where I really want to go is, what extra energy? What is this energy you speak of and where are we getting it? According to known laws of physics it must come from somewhere, it can’t just suddenly exist (well maybe, but then we’re getting into a non physics discussion).
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extra energy from the correct spectrum is stored and then turns to suger
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Hope that explains where the exrta potency comes from using the LED's, correct Colours and no waisted spectrum.
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So hypothetically light #1 provides wavelengths A and Z, while light #2 provides exactly the same thing plus wavelengths Q, R and S. Are you with me so far? Oh crap, this illustration is probably stupid. Ah, go for it opie, your stupidity is already legendary. OK, so in order for my 2 hypothetical plants to feed at peak chlorophyll activity in the restaurant of life, they need to order a helping each of light #2. Being typical youngsters, they prefer to just load up on wavelengths A and Z all day, and the truth is they could survive on that alone. But they’re nearly adults now, and they’re mature enough to know that eating some Q and S will build strong teeth and bones, and help them to grow up to be happy, healthy and productive members of society. They always ask for an extra plate so they can have some place to put wavelength R, which unfortunately comes with light #2. They don’t care much for the taste of R, and they really have no use for it. It would almost be like humans eating celery, which makes them burn more calories than are taken in.
One night as the plants lay awake in bed, they spoke of their dream of getting extra energy some how from one of the lights. Below them on a shelf were some young seedlings just finishing up a late dinner of light #3. They couldn’t help overhearing the conversation, and started saying how much better off they were because they didn’t care what kind of light they ate, and they could even survive in conditions of very low light.
All of a sudden Misty, the seedling leader spoke up and said she had an awesome idea. “I think I know how we could get extra energy,” she said with pride. “Oh piss off,” said one of the young adults, “We’ve been talking about that for the past 2 hours, and there’s no friggen way. Laws of physics and such.” Though the young adults acted nonchalant and aloof, they secretly were very excited to hear what Misty was thinking of. After all, since in the beginning, when God put weed in charge of all the earth, enterprising plants have unsuccessfully been trying to get extra energy out of things. The seedling went on to explain that if they were to simply switch to light #1, meals would stop coming with that annoying wavelength R. After all, though not ideal it is possible for them to live without Q and S, and survive solely on A and Z. Ipso facto, abracadabra, boom! Extra energy. “That doesn’t really make sense”, one of the older ones said. Well that didn’t detour Misty in the slightest, as she continued to clarify her position. She was a little baffled because to her, it seemed so obvious and made every bit of sense. Even though she would be loosing some energy from the absence of Q and S, it would more than be made up for, by the simple fact that wavelength R would no longer be available. Logically, this in turn would create extra energy, and therefore faster and bigger growth. “It’s great she’s thinking for herself and all,” whispered one of the older plants, “but this is the same chick that 2 days earlier insisted we could make a 2 foot length of chain stronger by adding more links.” The other older plant chuckled quietly, “Yeah, eliminating certain wavelengths won’t generate extra energy. It’ll just make light with fewer wavelengths.” The first older plant said goodnight to everyone, then smiled and said to Misty, “Good luck with that extra energy thing. Let us know how it works out for you.”
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