Actually Earth Plants are pretty much tuned for the lower frequency bands of visible light or in other words they are already tuned more for the red and near infrared end of the light spectrum.
I don't think the ?800? degree rocks and atmosphere might not be hot enough to radiate infrared light at a high enough frequency to be useful.
Incidentally that's part of the reason why most plants are seen as having Green or blue/green leaves. They take in the lower frequencies and reflect the higher more damaging frequencies of the spectrum.
Filtering out Ultraviolet light will improve the plant's growth and productivity.
From a thermodynamics point of view all lifeforms must extract energy for life by movement of energy usually from hot to cold or alternatively bright to dark it's also possible to use high concentration to low concentration as a food source.
it would be very hard engineer a plant lifeform in the ?800? degree hot house that is currently Venus the plant would need chemical processes that were hotter than the surronding temperature.
Unless the plant lifeform has some sort of exotic internal cold sink say a hyperspace handwavium tap to one of the moons of Jupiter where the other half of the plant lives. The plant on Venus feeds off the heat surronding it and venting it to Jupiter's Moon where the other half the plant feeds off it again venting it into frozen enviroment of the Jupiter moon.
The hot half the plant warms the cold half through hyperspace while the cold half cools the hot half the same way.
These handwavium plants could be a powerful source of energy in the outer solar system allowing you to in effect use them to draw energy from Venus and use it to power your ship venting the waste heat into space.
howard melton
God bless
I don't think the ?800? degree rocks and atmosphere might not be hot enough to radiate infrared light at a high enough frequency to be useful.
Incidentally that's part of the reason why most plants are seen as having Green or blue/green leaves. They take in the lower frequencies and reflect the higher more damaging frequencies of the spectrum.
Filtering out Ultraviolet light will improve the plant's growth and productivity.
From a thermodynamics point of view all lifeforms must extract energy for life by movement of energy usually from hot to cold or alternatively bright to dark it's also possible to use high concentration to low concentration as a food source.
it would be very hard engineer a plant lifeform in the ?800? degree hot house that is currently Venus the plant would need chemical processes that were hotter than the surronding temperature.
Unless the plant lifeform has some sort of exotic internal cold sink say a hyperspace handwavium tap to one of the moons of Jupiter where the other half of the plant lives. The plant on Venus feeds off the heat surronding it and venting it to Jupiter's Moon where the other half the plant feeds off it again venting it into frozen enviroment of the Jupiter moon.
The hot half the plant warms the cold half through hyperspace while the cold half cools the hot half the same way.
These handwavium plants could be a powerful source of energy in the outer solar system allowing you to in effect use them to draw energy from Venus and use it to power your ship venting the waste heat into space.
howard melton
God bless