Robin van Spaandonk wrote:
> Either Brooks Harrop or the reporter needs to go back to school. 1E27 (not > 10E27) Watts is 3 times the entire power output of the Sun. > Ouch. I should have caught that. I have the power of the sun listed in my book, p. 11. On that page I computed that the sun could supply every person roughly 4,000 times the power now used by the entire human race. I hope I got that right. That is assuming something like Freeman Dyson described, where the entire sun is surrounded with some sort of envelope to capture the energy. The power of the sun and many other useful factoids can be found here: http://hypertextbook.com/facts/index-topics.shtml It has things such as the mass and height of an average adult, and the fractal dimension of broccoli. - Jed
