Essential University Physics (3rd Edition)
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Author: Richard Wolfson
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Chapter 29, Problem 66P
Your roommate’s father is CEO of a coal company, so your roommate is understandably skeptical of alternative energy proposals. He claims that there’s no future for solar energy, because the power in sunlight is insufficient to meet humankind’s energy demand. Is he right? To find out, compare the solar power incident on Earth with our human energy consumption rate of about 16 TW.
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