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How much energy (watts) from the sun reaches every square meters of the earth?
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∙ 6y ago
The earth receives an average of 164 watts per square meter from the sun. This is the average spread over the world including poles and tropics, night and day. The energy in units used commonly in commerce (kilowatt-hours) would be about 45 millionths of a kilowatt hour per second per square meter.
More important is the calculation of how much usable energy reaches the ground where the energy could be put into use. At 40 degrees latitude (the rough middle of the US) during the 8 peak hours of the daylight, each square meter will receive about 4.8 kilowatt hours.
Wiki User
∙ 13y ago
Wiki User
∙ 12y agoAveraged over the whole world: 164 Watts per square meter over a 24 hour day.
At 40 degrees latitude on a sunny summer day: 600 Watts per square meter.
At 40 degrees latitude on a sunny winter day: 300 Watts per square meter.
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Ultraviolet Types
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What is the term given to the sun's energy that reaches the earth?
Insolation, or solar radiation.
How does the sun give its energy to the Earth when space has no gravity?
The light travel directly through the vacuum and reaches earth
How radiant energy reaches the earth?
It reaches earth as an electromagnetic wave.
What is one energy the reaches earth from the sun?
The energy that reaches the Earth from the sun is known as sunlight.
The suns energy reaches the earth as what type of energy?
radiant
When energy from the sun reaches earth it is not?
absorbed by earth's core
What form does suns energy have when it reaches earth?
The Sun's energy is given out mainly as "electromagnetic radiation". Light is a form of electromagnetic radiation. Heat is the main form the Sun's energy has when it reaches Earth, particularly the Earth's surface.
What is the main source of energy that reaches earth?
The Sun
What does the sun have to do with earth's energy budget?
Nearly all of the energy that reaches Earth's surface comes from the sun.
Which of the is the main source of energy that reaches earth?
Solar radiation.
Where does the energy that reaches the earth's surface come from?
the sun
How much of the Sun's energy reaches the earth and why?
half a billionth
How does energy that reaches the earth from the sun travel?
It is done by radiation.
Most of the sun's energy reaches earth as?
Electromagnetic radiation.
