Page 17 - Photosynthesis: The Green Miracle

A Mechanism Producing Vital Energy

The energy reaching the Earth from the Sun every
day is around 10,000 times greater than all the energy that
mankind will require throughout that single day.
Developed nations spend large amounts of money on re-
search into how sunlight’s free energy can be stored.

From the research performed for this purpose, one
astonishing truth has emerged; Plants already possess a
perfect system for storing this energy from the Sun, in a
procedure known as photosynthesis. Plants perform photo-
synthesis thanks to the chlorophyll in their tissues. This
chlorophyll produces carbohydrate, the basic foodstuff of
all life, by converting solar energy into chemical energy.

Carbohydrates are basic food sources that, directly or
indirectly, meet the energy needs of all living things.
There is no need to eat plants in order to obtain this ener-
gy. Since many animals feed on plants, that same energy
can reach human beings by way of animal-based food-
stuffs. For example, sheep eat grass. Green grass uses so-

lar energy to synthesize carbohydrate molecules by way
of photosynthesis and thus stores the carbohydrates in-
side its tissues. Grass-eating sheep themselves absorb
these high-energy molecules into their own bodies.
Digested, the carbohydrate molecules later are oxidized
as energy and converted into fat in the sheep’s bodies. The
energy in these molecules is thus transferred to the ani-

mal’s tissues. Someone who then eats these animals ab-
sorbs this energy, which originally reached the grass from
the Sun.