On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, Jerry Friedman wrote: > > --- Steve Brust <skzb at dreamcafe.com> 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. I still want to argue this point but not at 28.8k... Aside, congrats to the listmaster for killing the dupes.