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The plants of course are (as you pointed out) producing end products (sugars, oils, lignin) all of them coming from splitting H₂O and CO₂ and reassembling the freed atoms.
We are at last getting better at doing this. Hysata claims to be able to produce hydrogen through electrolysis at 95% efficiency! 
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