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4. Renewable capacity dwarfs non-renewable resources
Thu Feb 6, 2014, 07:02 AM
Feb 2014
The amount of solar energy reaching the surface of the planet is so vast that in one year it is about twice as much as will ever be obtained from all of the Earth's non-renewable resources of coal, oil, natural gas, and mined uranium combined

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_energy


edit to add: from an earlier version of another wikipedia page:

The estimates of remaining non-renewable worldwide energy resources vary, with the remaining fossil fuels totaling an estimated 0.4 YJ (1 YJ = 10^24J) and the available nuclear fuel such as uranium exceeding 2.5 YJ. Fossil fuels range from 0.6 to 3 YJ if estimates of reserves of methane clathrates are accurate and become technically extractable. The total energy flux from the sun is 3.8 YJ/yr, dwarfing all non-renewable resources.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=World_energy_consumption&oldid=574980905


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