"The amount of solar energy that hits our atmosphere has been well established at 174 petawatts (1.740 × 10^17 watts), plus or minus 3.5 percent. Out of this total solar flux, approximately half reaches the Earth’s surface. Since humanity currently consumes about 16 terawatts annually (going by 2008 numbers), there’s over five thousand times more solar energy falling on the planet’s surface than we use in a year. Once again, it’s not an issue of scarcity, it’s an issue of accessibility."
Abundance by Peter H. Diamandis, Steven Kotler
What's particularly interesting is that capturing all the energy we need from the sun would only take less than 1% of the available land on earth. The Fossil apologists claim that this would cost an inordinate amount but the drastic drop in costs of solar are literally transforming that equation before our eyes.












