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anonporridge
1571 days ago
It's far less than the variance of direct solar irradiation hitting the Earth given varying differences in distance from the sun in the Earth's orbit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_constant#Solar_irradianc...
It looks like direct solar radiance is actually 173,000 TW plus or minus 6,000 TW.