> which was around 11 trillion watts in 2022, this would slow the planet’s spin by 7 milliseconds over the next century, the authors calculate. Really puts how

> which was around 11 trillion watts in 2022, this would slow the planet’s spin by 7 milliseconds over the next century, the authors calculate. Really puts how small we are on a cosmic scale into perspective. If we did it for a million years at current energy use scale it would shorten our day by about 1.1 seconds.