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Originally Posted by Porsche-O-Phile
Why is nobody looking at the biochemical mechanisms used by plants (photosynthesis)? Plants are pretty damn efficient at converting solar energy into chemical energy and have had billions of years to refine the process. I imagine it's going to be difficult to get more efficient than that.
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True for regulating a metobolism incluing energy required for diffusion and osmosis but to convert it to current is a whole other issue - they are efficiant for the chemisrty but the sort of energy balence required (photon energy in, electron energy out) is beyound what a plant photosynthsis can do. If it could, a great deffensive mechansim would have been an electric shock similar to that of an electric eel.