The Time Used to Generate Fossil Fuels by the Sun

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Area of the earth that faces the sun is 49M square miles = pi * (3952 mi)^2
1 square mile is 2.6M square meters
Insolation from the sun is 1000W/meter squared
Efficiency of photosynthesis is 0.1%

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