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Date: 2005-03-09 08:50 pm (UTC)Googling for "photosynthetic efficiency" will give you various tables, but be careful with the definitions they use. The 8% figure for sugarcane can also be found in Lovelock in his discussion of C3/C4/CAM plants, if memory serves. I can dig up more from Hall & Rao later, if you'd like.
Charlie, I've never seen a Drexlerian design that didn't look like a high explosive about to go off. (Merkle's are a little better.) Poor guy just isn't a chemist, that's all.
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