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by burnt-resistor 35 days ago
The Sun imparts about 7.6 kWh/m²/day at the equator.

Suppose the area of the equatorial oceans is about 100M km².

That's 2.41e21 J/day potential of hitting oceans, but not entirely absorbed. Put another way: about ⅓ the energy of all natural gas reserves as solar radiation per day.