How many barrels of oil equivalent energy falls

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Question - Resources and Displacement

If the earth receives 89,000 TW of power from solar sources and is 511 trillion square meters (511 X 10¹² for those that like numbers this way) in size:

A Resources:

a. How many Watts/ square meter does this represent?

b. If one Watt of energy flow is equal to a Joule of energy per second, how many Joules fall on a square meter of the earth's surface every year? Please take leap years into account.

c. By conversion, how many barrels of oil equivalent energy falls on every square meter of the earth's surface every year?

d. If 17 percent of those solar energy resources could be harnessed (including all losses for capture and conversion for the purpose of this question), how many days would it take for an average 115 square meter solar array to till-up a car with the energy equivalent of a 20-gallon tank of gasoline?

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