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-- The sun's energy doesn't really need to be transferred "around the globe",

because every point on the globe is on a direct line of sight from the sun for

exactly 50% of the time.

-- Solar energy is transferred from place to place, however, by the large-scale

motions of heated and cooled air masses, referred to technically as "wind".

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