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by lbatx 2504 days ago
No, we need to use more of what we get. We don't use hardly any of what hits the earth. I believe I read that the Sun supplies 50X the amount of energy we consume (if of course we could capture it as energy).
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You are off by a few orders of magnitude, the amount of sunlight hitting just new mexico (after taking into account the losses of converting it to electricity) is about 50x the energy we consume.
Worldwide?