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cycomanictoday at 9:37 AM1 replyview on HN

That comment does not make sense. Do you mean the sun emits it's peak intensity at green (I don't believe that is true either, but at least it would make a physically sensical statement). To clarify why the statement does not make sense, the energy of light is directly proportional to its frequency so saying that green is the highest energy light the sun emits is saying the sun does not emit any light at frequency higher than green, i.e. no blue light no UV... That's obviously not true.


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antonvstoday at 12:36 PM

> Do you mean the sun emits its peak intensity at green

That's presumably what they mean. It's more or less true, except the color in question is at the green / yellow transition.

See e.g. https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/courses-images-archive-re...