--- Steve Brust <skzb at dreamcafe.com> wrote: > On Mon, 2004-07-26 at 09:51, Ken Koester wrote: > > > >And I certainly don't see how the calories the plants miss because of > the > > >overcast can be replaced. > > > > > > > > > > > This one I don't understand. The caloric content of plants shouldn't > > vary with sunlight. Do you mean > > that there will be fewer calories available from plants because there > > will fewer plants? > > Actually, it isn't all that complicated. _Principles of Field Crop > Production_ by Martin, Leonard, and Stamp, third edition, page 76 has a > very convenient chart showing how plants are effected by various light > spectra. Turns out "orange-red" is right up there; you don't lose very > much. In that case I apologize (thereby revealing that I'm not Dragaeran) for saying you might not have done the research. Also for not mentioning that plants go very lushly in the cloudiest parts of the world. Jerry Friedman __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail