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Each day more solar energy falls to the earth than the total amount of energy the planet's 6 billion inhabitants would consume in 27 years.
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In just 40 minutes of daylight, the sun releases the amount of energy that is consumed by the entire population of the planet in an entire year!
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In 20 days, the sun produced the same amount of energy stored in the earth's reserves of coal, oil and natural gas.
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Currently, we only capture about 1% of the energy produced by the sun every day.
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Unlike the rest of the earth's natural resources, we can never run out of sunlight. |
The sun will never explode. While it is possible (and regular) for stars to explode, our sun is not big enough or energized enough (believe it or not) to explode. Who'd have thought?
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