10000 Factor

There is 10,000 times more power than comes from the sun than society uses today, even in its somewhat wasteful way of doing things.

The more accurate figure is about 9000 - the number of hours in a year. Every hour, the earth receives as much energy from the sun as it uses per year. [1].

This has profound implications for the index of possibility in terms of guaranteed prosperity and abundance. See also 1000 Factor.

This concept is highly unfathomable to most people. But it indeed means that all the energy that ever came to the earth from the sun to grow the plants that created fossil fuels - is captured by the surface of the earth every 8 days or so! Stop, become Numerate to appreciate this concept deeply, and cheer up for possibility and forthcoming paradise on earth. If we only choose to do so.