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  • Yes, it’s pretty cool. Side notes:

    • plants produce a literally electrical voltage across cell membrane when collecting sunlight. The solar panel is very much a technological copy of plant leaves.

    • biology can be incredibly efficient sometimes. storing information in DNA takes just about 40-50 atoms per bit, and DNA is about 2.5 nm in diameter. For comparison, the finest structures in modern computers are 3-5 nm in size.

    • since powering the whole thing is incredibly important, animals have one specialized cell (mitochondria) inside every normal cell, simply for the purpose to convert the energy from sugar into a usable form. Plants have two of these specialized cells, with the other one’s job being simply to collect sunlight and turn it into usable energy. That, in my opinion, makes them more advanced than animals. ;-)



  • nikaaa@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlProbably, yeah
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    2 months ago

    solar panels will do a lot to reduce the problem of climate change significantly.

    I’m saying this because I see a lot of young people having depression due to climate doomerism, and realizing there’s an effective strategy that can be physically implemented helps a lot.




  • nikaaa@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlProbably, yeah
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    2 months ago

    and keep eating the foods that you know give you inflammation

    fucking wheat. I knew it was bad for like since my childhood, only stopped eating large quantities of it a year ago, when i finally got my shit together and converted to a mostly rice-based diet.