Earth’s Energy Balance— Jack Schiffhauer
100% of the suns energy is entering the earths atmosphere but only 50% of the energy is making it to the earth surface for example, the oceans and the land. 30% of the sun energy is bounced back into space by clouds, gases, and particles in the air. If we minimize the amount of gases and particles we release into air we can decrease the amount of sunlight that gets bounced back into space by at least half if not more. With the added sunlight we can have more efficient solar power and we can put more solar panels in sunny places and run off of solar power to produce more energy.
I agree with you completely in saying that we need to reduce the amount of harmful gases that we are releasing into the atmosphere as it is harming the Earth all around. We need to maximize the amount of sunlight that we are getting from the sun because it can give us more efficient and useful energy. Solar energy is needed tremendously, and we need more than 50% to successfully have solar energy.
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