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Originally Posted by KRL
The Sun provides enough FREE Solar Energy in a single day to power the entire planet, but the oil companies don't want people to know that nor see it happen.
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The sun give us around 1400 watts per square meter to work with (that is, what strikes the earth's surface), of course not all of it usable at once (night/clouds/earth rotation). Out of that we can only tap into a small percentage of it due to how inefficient solar cells actually are. At the current rate of power consumption, it would take a large portion of available 'farmland' in the USA to provide power for the enitre planet. imo, we would outstrip power requirements constantly as solar tech could not keep up with the demands of an ever power-hungry world.