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12.2 trillion watt-hours converts to 12,211 gigawatt-hours, and based on 8,760 hours per year, and 197 million square miles of earthâs surface (including the oceans), the earth receives about 274 million gigawatt-years of solar energy, which translates to an astonishing 8.2 million âquadsâ of Btu energy per year.
1) The standard value for the average amount of energy from the sun which reaches the top of the earth's atmosphere, per second, and per square centimeter, is 0.14 Joules/sec/cm2 . If our value came out higher or lower than this standard number, explain why you think this happened.