About a third of this prodigious flow is promptly reflected into space, mainly by clouds. The leftover—roughly 113,000 terawatts, depending on cloud cover—is available for capture. All human enterprises together now use a bit less than 18 terawatts.
About a third of this prodigious flow is promptly reflected into space, mainly by clouds. The leftover—roughly 113,000 terawatts, depending on cloud cover—is available for capture. All human enterprises together now use a bit less than 18 terawatts.