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12.2 trillion watt-hours converts to 12,211 gigawatt-hours, and based on 8,760 hours per year, and 197 million square miles of earthâs surface (including the oceans), the earth receives about 274 million gigawatt-years of solar energy, which translates to an astonishing 8.2 million âquadsâ of Btu energy per year.
Using the radius of the Earth and the Solar Constant the amount â¦ of energy that the Earth gets from the Sun is about 1.8 x 10^17 watts. This would equate to: 0.000000047% of the energy that reaches the outside of our atmosphere. 30% of this 1.8 x 10^17 watts is reflected back into space.