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Where are you getting your figure for total incident solar energy? Using 17410^15 W total solar flux from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%27s_energy_budget#
by Pinckney 15y ago
Where are you getting your figure for total incident solar energy? Using 17410^15 W total solar flux from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%27s_energy_budget#Incoming_energy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%27s_energy_budget#Incomin...
I'm getting 5.510^24 J/yr ~= 5,500,000 EJ/yr (all wavelenghts).
- kwantam 15y agoYou're absolutely right. The source for my original number was quoting a narrow band of wavelengths and making some additional assumptions about usability of energy flux. Thanks for the correction; I'm a bit less of a pessimist now :)