Since we all get our energy from the sun(from things we eat), would it be possible to...?

Question

We all get our energy from the sun(from things we eat). Is it possible to create something that would allow us to get our energy for our bodies directly from the sun without having to eat?
Would it be too much power for us? How could we convert raw energy from the sun into something our bodies could use?

Kain is on the right track, we'd need a way to make food out of sunlight. But how would this work?

I mean, how would we convert sun's energy into food(other than the obvious answer of planting a vegetable garden)

Answer 1

I hope we can find a way. But then I'd miss eating lasagna!

Answer 2

The only problem is, we cannot intake calories and carbs directly from the sun. Without those two things, our bodies start to die.

Unless someone could create a device that converts the suns energy into a form of food (complex or simple) this would never be possible.

Oh by the way: Science alert, not sure if you know but
the sun activates vitamin D in our body. Without the sun Vitamin D would not activate.

Answer 3

If our bodies were capable of photosynthesis then yes we could create energy directly from the sun. But because only plants and curtain types of bacteria are capable of this process the answer is no. We most consume energy from plants or other animals because of the food chain.

Answer 4

Hello, “Coralicious”

Congratulations. You have a brilliant mind able to think like that. Some answers here made me smile a lot : “I don’t want to live without my lasagna!”

Let’s go to see what Matrix’s Theory says about. Our body is an opened natural system (ONS) and every ONS searches for energy for to replace its used energy, for to grow in power and for to become more complex. Our body is attracted to organic elements and some mineral elements because they have the kind of energy for to accomplish those needs. It is the secret behind the act of “eaten”.

The kind of energy these elements have is sun’s energy and our body needs sun’s energy because our last common ancestor was an astronomic system, whose totality of informations is stocked in stars. Our body mimics the system at the sky, but we are not complete, and the informations for being complete are coming from the stars.

A briefly looks to the picture of a matrix of astronomy systems shows that they are “closed system”. They are thousands of years less evolved and less complex than animal’s cells, but they works like an extraordinary machine. They can recycle its used mass and energy, they can reproduce its old “organs”: every time that a star dies, the system produces a new star. Ok. Our “Milk Way” is today a fossil of those species because it was attacked by entropy and its “bits-information” is failing in chaotic state over some planets like Earth. Here, neighbor’s bits search for others trying to recompose the astronomic system but they got only “biological cells”. The biological cells are the flow of order that lift up from the chaos.

The first and most complete copy of the astronomic matrix is “plant cells”. They have all elements, the seven pieces that compose the matrix. It was supposed that plant cells would be able to recycle its own mass and energy degraded but the environment, the variable plasticity, and the liquid state of matter makes it impossible. Plant cells have the last piece of astronomic circuit, which mimics the star: it is the chloroplast. It is the explanation why chloroplasts can do photosynthesis; it is a mechanism/copy of nuclear reactions inside stars.

But, animal’s cells have no the last “organ”, the circuit finishes at mitochondrias. These mitochondria are trying to capture the bits-information (photons from the star) for to accomplish a chloroplast and these already advanced bits produces the mechanism of ATP.

At labs, we can analyze the composition of mytochondrias and chloroplasts; see how works the evolutionary steps and point out what is missing at mitochondria. But we need develop new tools that can reach and observes stars photons, making maps of them like we are doing with genes just now. With the right kind of photons, we can genetic engineering our mitochondria for doing the function of chloroplasts also, I think.

By the way, the next human transcendental shape will be feed direct with those photons, like must be some aliens most evolved than we are.

But it would be a danger and bad idea becoming human beings able to feed directly from the sun. It can mean our destruction. What happened with the plants? Being an approximate copy of closed system, they had cut all possibility for evolution. Animal’s cells, being not such “expertise” in its own existence, being opened system, were opened to evolution. You know the final results. Thanks God we are not so rich like the plants and the matrix of astronomy systems.

Answer 5

In short, we do get our energy from the sun directly. The sun is directly responsible for all living things. Without the sun all living things would die.

Answer 6

Sure would be neat I think dinoflagellate algae allows a host organisms (in this case it would be people) to benefit from photosynthesis.

Man that would be cool.

Man lets run to a university and get some high grade cultures of dinoflagellate algae and try it out right now!!!

Coarse we would still have to drink water and get minerals and stuff.

I bet eventually the algae would die and the effect would would not be permanent. But who knows.
Bet we would have to get more zinc then normal to keep the algae alive.

Answer 7

well, we could try like a few animals do on earth, alge in the body, like corals and such. I guess some research would be need to see how much energy we would need

Answer 8

I guess we could mix our genes with a corn plant and sprout leaves. That way no one can move and we don't hurt each other or the rest of the planet. Although, we would probably spit corn at each other.

Answer 9

mediating facing the sun gives us some energy
even sun bath gives us energy

Answer 10

unless we can adapt to having chloroplasts in our systems it's not gonna work and that will take a lot of adaption and gene therapy