> > --snip--
and yet, the article claims that the solar > energy incident on just one square km, for one year, equals the chemical > energy stored in the remaining conventional petroleum. > > What the article says is: "A single kilometer-wide band of geosynchronous Earth orbit experiences enough solar flux in one year to nearly equal the amount of energy contained within all known recoverable conventional oil reserves on Earth today," the report said." I don't see where you get one square km out of that. There's a lot of information from various sources on this subject in general; being it is no longer Friday I'll leave it at that- people can do their own reading/research if they wish. Cya, Robert |
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