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Re:Is Vertical Farming Really the Future of Agriculture? by mcbits on Friday July 06, 2018 @02:12AM (#17469323)
I wonder if it's really necessary to convert the light to electricity as an intermediate step. I'm imagining a filter that's mostly transparent but has a fluorescent coating to convert UV to visible light that the plants can use, effectively brightening the sun in the useful part of the spectrum. Unfortunately Google is giving me the wrong kind of results for "fluorescent filter".
Re:Is Vertical Farming Really the Future of Agriculture? by nicholas73 on Friday July 06, 2018 @09:28PM (#17476328)
The material you are looking for is called a scintillator. It converts higher energy photons to visible. Of course it has its own issues / cost. Plus, you have to get the light from the rooftop to plants.