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Subject: Re: OT: light altering paint for greenhouses could help lengthen
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On Sun, 24 Nov 2024 09:35:43 -0800, john larkin wrote:

> On Sun, 24 Nov 2024 06:43:45 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
> wrote:
> 
>>Light-altering paint for greenhouses could help lengthen the fruit
>>growing season in the UK
>> https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/11/241120122018.htm
>>Summary:
>> New spray developed by scientists could help boost UK farming and
>> increase the UK's food security.
>>
>>Paper:
>> https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/admt.202400977
>>
>>stuff they use, quote:
>>'
>> In this paper, we develop an approach based on readily prepared and
>> cheap Eu3+-containing polyoxotitanium cages (Eu-POTs) which, we show,
>> possess the necessary design features listed before.
>> Having established the ground rules for selective modification,
>> we introduce a working prototype luminophore with high PLQY (>60%)
>> which is soluble in a range of commercial plastics, including
>> water-based acrylic paint that can be sprayed onto conventional glass
>> greenhouses in an agricultural environment.
>>'
> 
> Greenhouses will never grow much of the world's needed food.
> 
> But things keep getting better:
> 
> https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/index-of-cereal-production-yield-and-
land-use
> 
> More CO2 is part of the reason, which is why people pump CO2 into
> greenhouses.

<cough>
My dear fellow, did you not suggest only a short time ago that we both 
ignore this OP's off-topic nonsense?  Just a little reminder....