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Re:Wind now competes with fossil fuels, and solar almost does by toomuchtodo on Friday October 09, 2015 @01:10AM (#10358294)
You're free to your pessimism :) I've got another 50 years of life to be hopeful.

Enough sunlight falls on the Earth in 5 minutes to power the world for a year. That's effectively limitless.

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Re:Wind now competes with fossil fuels, and solar almost does by SideburnsOfDoom on Friday October 09, 2015 @03:49AM (#10358670)
> Enough sunlight falls on the Earth in 5 minutes to power the world for a year.

At current levels, and that's the point of the parent comment.

> That's effectively limitless.

It's 0.0000095 or so. Impressive but not limitless. An earth in which all the infalling sunlight was used for power would be a dark place, which would be bad for people and for agriculture. And oxygen production. So actually lot less than that.

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