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IN the very interesting Trueman Wood lecture delivered at the Royal Society of Arts on December 10, Sir Oliver Lodge discussed the utilisation of solar radiation, and recommended, as the best method of effecting this purpose, the promotion of agriculture of every kind. According to Sir Oliver Lodge, the green leaves of trees and vegetables generally are able to absorb and utilise solar energy without much regard for any hampering limit to efficiency such as the second law of thermodynamics, but in saying this he appears to be unaware of the researches of Dr. Horace Brown, who has shown that the actual amount of energy stored is less than 2 per cent, of that which reaches the vegetation.
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SWINTON, A. Power from the Sun. Nature 104, 392 (1919). https://doi.org/10.1038/104392a0
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