Because more and more people are realizing the true power of harvesting the sun’s energy, there is a greater interest in learning more about solar energy facts.
Solar energy can be used for a wide range of things like heating our houses, heating water, and even running motors to cool and air-condition our houses.
While there are many solar energy facts out there, here are seven amazing ones to help you increase your renewable energy knowledge.
1. The earth receives and amazing 174 pentawatts of solar radiation every day. But a large portion, about 30%, is reflected back into space, and is unable to be used.
2 The total solar energy absorbed by the atmosphere, ocean, and land masses is about 3.9 exajoules per year.
3. The amount of solar energy reaching the earth in one hour is more then enough to power the world for one whole year!
4.. In the 3,021km Australian Darwin to Adelaide annual car race for solar powered vehicles, the first race in 1987, had competitors averaging 67 km an hour. By the year 2005 they were up to 103 km an hour.
5. The sun is about 93,000,000 miles away, and if you estimate that light travels at 186,282 miles per second, it would take about eight minutes for light to travel from the Sun to the earth.
6. Shell has predicted that 50% of the world’s energy will come from renewal resources by the year 2040.
7. Some people estimate that up to 15-20% of people in the world are without electricity, so the next time you are watching TV, be grateful.
I hope these solar energy facts encourage you to learn more about this renewable resource. Now is a great time to learn how to harvest this energy at your own home.
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