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To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (57344)	8/26/2014 10:50:47 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86350

"The annual energy used by man amounts to 40 minutes of Sunshine" That leaves 364 days, 23 hrs, and 40 minutes to heat the rest of the planet, where it adds the equivalent of 4 Hiroshimas/ second to our heat balance. Sounds like it is more than enuf to power the entire world, and we haven't even tapped the wind. Obviously, we can get off of fossil fuel, where we are burning the equivalent of 400 days of fossil sunlight every day, which certainly is a lot less efficient than collecting 40 minutes. "On a daily basis the sun warms the earth 20F." Since only 19.9999 degrees or so radiate back out because of greenhouse gases, that means we are warming by 0.00001 degree per day. "Puny mankind is puny still." This is true; however 7 billion mankinds aren't, and that about how many of us there are on the mudball.