Quiz.

[Ihavenojob]

Steve Magarret in Hawaii 5 0

 

[Bodd]

Forget that.... someone else have a go....

 

[Ihavenojob]

OK, I'll have a go.
With a great design and proper use of controls and insulation, my 3 bed semi is heated by a 12 KW (12,000 Watts) gas boiler. How many Watts does the sun emit?

 

[transam]

Trillions ?

 

[Ihavenojob]

Trillions ?

many

 

[JohnD]

Of which, maybe 10 to 20 hit your house on a sunny day.

 

[EddieM]

Of which, maybe 10 to 20 hit your house on a sunny day.

IIRC, which I probably don't. I think on a sunny day the sun provides about 100 watts / m2

 

[JohnD]

I think that might have been somewhere near the electricity conversion rate of early solar panels, but the total energy is higher.

A 1.28m² solar panel now is rated at 250W, and 20% efficiency
https://www.itstechnologies.shop/pr...MI95eSgYD87wIVme3tCh1pEAG6EAQYASABEgIt_vD_BwE

my figure was also from memory so is probably wrong too

 

[Ihavenojob]

Bit of a hiatus, so I'll give the answer.
According to most sites I've read, at any moment, the sun emits about 3.86 x 10 to the power of 26 watts of energy, so that is 386,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 watts.

 

[Mottie]

Correct.

 

[Ihavenojob]

Someone else can ask a question.

 

[Mottie]

Another dog question. What was the name of the mother of a pup called 'Wolf'?

 

[Ihavenojob]

Old yellow

 

[Mottie]

No. A clue. The mother of Wolf had a famous owner.

 

[Mottie]

24 hours without a post. Unless my question is too hard, it looks like this thread has died a natural death.......