[yazaddaruvala]

It’s actually more efficient to capture all wave lengths of solar store it in a battery and then only produce the wavelengths that the plants can absorb.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/plants-versus-pho...

[schemy]

In the same way that it's more efficient for me to drink high octane fuel rather than eat food.

[yazaddaruvala]

Probably better to think of it as eating mushrooms rather than trying to chew on he bark of a tree.

Chewing on bark will work, if you have enough bark, but it’s significantly more effective to use a fungus as an intermediary.