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Total Bacterial Luminance(lm)=471.13 x Total Energy Output(W)
Total Bacterial Luminance(lm)=471.13 x Total Energy Output(W)
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{{:Team:Cambridge/Templates/RightImage|image=Fischerispectrum.jpg|caption=''Figure 2: The emission spectrum of V. Fischeri (shown in black)''}}
 
It should be noted that this is actually a really good conversion factor, only about 33% of the radiant energy is lost to the outer regions of human perception (at best 1lm = 683.002 W). This is due to the fact that (as you can see from the scotopic luminosity function in figure 3) the human eye is better at seeing blue light in the dark than red light, and our bacterial light is clearly blue.
It should be noted that this is actually a really good conversion factor, only about 33% of the radiant energy is lost to the outer regions of human perception (at best 1lm = 683.002 W). This is due to the fact that (as you can see from the scotopic luminosity function in figure 3) the human eye is better at seeing blue light in the dark than red light, and our bacterial light is clearly blue.
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{{:Team:Cambridge/Templates/RightImage|image=Fischerispectrum.jpg|caption=''Figure 2: The emission spectrum of V. Fischeri (shown in black)''}}
==Bringing it all together==
==Bringing it all together==

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