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jema

BBC Solar panel article

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/8370642.stm

Quote:

The sun's potential remains under-exploited - the Earth gets 5,000 times more energy from the sun than we use in electricity.


I wonder how people see that quote? To me it tells me that we are using way too much electricity. At 20% efficiency you would have to cover .1% of the worlds surface in solar panels to equal what we use!
vegplot

That's the kind of levels where the it would have an effect on the earth's systems.
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