Re:Wind now competes with fossil fuels, and solar almost does
by SideburnsOfDoom on Friday October 09, 2015 @03:49AM
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> 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.
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.