Trivia: Solar Energy = 1 Trillion 1 Megaton Atom Bombs Per Second

• The Slapster
  March 22nd, 2008 at 5:23 pm

  Damn, if ONLY there was some way to harness all of that energy! No worries, I’m sure the government is all over a project that important, rest easy citizens.

• seekshelter
  March 22nd, 2008 at 8:02 pm

  did someone say harness all the suns energy?? check out the Dyson Sphere:

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson_sphere

• Sofar
  March 22nd, 2008 at 11:17 pm

  Harness all the sun’s energy? That’s pretty greedy. Plus, that’s the amount of energy the sun creates, not what we actually see.

• Bunny
  March 23rd, 2008 at 12:53 am

  Ugh.

  Can someone please double-check the spelling on the new posts before they make the site.

  “that” does not = “than”

• Alex
  March 23rd, 2008 at 5:34 am

  I’ve stopped worrying and learned to love the tyspo! Nevertheless, thanks for pointing it out, Bunny!

• Lasse
  March 23rd, 2008 at 6:35 am

  I am sure that corporations, politicans and scientists are working hard at this very moment to make this free energy available to everyone on this planet, rich and poor.

• Justin
  March 23rd, 2008 at 12:34 pm

  I’d be curious to know how much of that energy actually reaches the Earth. Either way, I’m sure it’s huge.

• Tom
  March 23rd, 2008 at 3:53 pm

  Take the total energy output of the sun, and divide it by the surface area of a sphere with a radius of 93 million miles (the formula is 4 times pi times the radius squared). Take that number and multiply it by the radius of earth squared times pi.

  It’s a very small portion of the total output.

• Jamie
  March 23rd, 2008 at 6:17 pm

  Harness the sun? Done.

  http://transformers.vishalrao.com/energon.jpg

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