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  • ​To supply power for the entire Earth on solar, solar panels would need to be installed on 191,000 square miles. There is over 57 million square miles of land on earth.
  • ​Although the sun is 90 million miles from the Earth, it takes less than 10 minutes for light to travel the distance.
  • While 174 Petawatts of incoming solar radiation hits the upper atmosphere, about 30% is reflected to space and the rest is absorbed by oceans, clouds and land masses.
  • Each year, the Earth’s atmosphere, land and oceans absorb the solar energy equivalent to 40,000 times the total energy consumption of the United States.
  • The Earth’s fossil fuel reserves roughly equate to three weeks of solar energy hitting the Earth.
  • One day’s worth of sunlight could satisfy global energy needs for nearly three decades.
  • In the 1960’s, the space industry began to use solar power aboard spacecrafts. The Vanguard 1, the first artificial earth satellite powered by solar, is the oldest man-made satellite in orbit.
  • The International Energy Agency (IEA) has predicted solar will provide more than 10% of global electricity by 2050.
  • Total installed U.S. solar PV capacity is expected to nearly triple over the next 5 years. By 2022, more than 18 GW of solar PV capacity will be installed annually.
  • In the year of 2016, a new megawatt of solar PV capacity came on-line every 36 minutes.
  • Solar energy is the most abundant energy resource on earth – 174,000 terawatts of solar energy continuously strikes the Earth. That’s more than 10,000 times the world’s total energy use.

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