Annual Solar Output


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Solar Energy

Solar Neutrinos

The Solar Wind

Solar Eruptions

130,000 billion metric tons of matter are converted (E = mc^2 ) to energy annually to give 3.8 x 10^26 W [1]

The observed flux is about 35% of that expected if the Sun's energy came solely from fusing Hydrogen into Helium [2].

carries off 50,000 billion metric ton of Hydrogen with isotopes of other elements sorted out and the heavy ones depleted [3]

throw away more energetic particles (SEP) with more heavy elements and more heavy isotopes than in the solar wind [4].

 

 

1. Michael Zeilik, Astronomy: The Evolving Universe, 3rd edition, (1982) p. 297
2. http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/sno/papers/0502021.pdf
3. http://web.umr.edu/~om/abstracts2005/The_Suns_Origin.pdf
4. http://epact2.gsfc.nasa.gov/don/00HiZ.pdf

 
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