On Sat, 06 Feb 2010 09:36:45 +0100, Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> Never seen light sticks? That is bioluminescence in a nut shell, and  
>> they make tons of them.
>
> Really? I thought the chemicals were designed by man...

Indeed:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glow_stick

Given the toxicity of the chemicals, I am sure the manufacturers would  
love to use bioluminescence instead if it was feasible.



> So there are effecient processes for turning external energy into  
> electricity, and turning electricity into energy such as muscle  
> contraction.

Muscle contractions are powered by chemical reactions.



> I'm guessing bioluminescense is usually driven either by the stored  
> energy of the reactants themselves [which probably requires some huge  
> long enzyme chain to resynthesize], or by a carrier molecule like AMP  
> [which can't be directly synthesized from electricity in any obvious  
> way].

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luciferase#Chemical_reaction



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