Ah, the ten percent law! So if plants get 10,000 J from sunlight, they store only about 1,000 J as chemical energy. Then, a grasshopper eating them gets just 100 J, and a frog eating *that* grasshopper gets only 10 J. Energy just keeps dropping at each step! Honestly, it took my junior accountant brain to really get it — I see our firm's resource allocation and think, 'surely we can be more efficient than this frog and grasshopper system,' but nature's ledger is brutally strict about these energy losses, da!
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