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Sun light energy/M^2

11/05/2006 3:27 AM

Can anybody give me an approx indiactions that how much of energy is in an avegage day sunlight that spread on the one square meter of earth.noon can be considered as a case.

Heat+light+others?

break up will be appreciated.

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Re: Sun light energy/M^2

11/05/2006 6:45 AM

See

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power

Google search took 0.1 second. Typing search term & following link added up to about 20 sec.

You to can do this.

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Re: Sun light energy/M^2

11/06/2006 9:04 AM

Google is great but so are you, if you know something. Mandela said, "let you light shine bright so that others will see it and shine too." Just be nice about pointing to google.

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Re: Sun light energy/M^2

11/05/2006 11:28 PM

You really need to work on those questions. Where on earth?

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Re: Sun light energy/M^2

11/05/2006 11:31 PM

And at what altitude?

And, are you just trying to be naughty asking such questions?

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Re: Sun light energy/M^2

11/05/2006 11:42 PM

As a rule of thumb roughly 1,000 Watts per square meter. Obviously that will vary depending of the angle of the sun but when its overhead it works out at about this.

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Re: Sun light energy/M^2

11/06/2006 6:27 AM

The power reaching the earth's surface from solar radiation is about 1kW per square meter. Of course this is for surfaces on which the suns rays are falling squarely on a clear day. The atennuation of sunlight depends on the atmospheric transparency and it also depends on its deviation from the straight overhead direction because of the extra thickness of atmosphere through which it has to penetrate.

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