my dumbass: actually, did you know that the sun outputs 3.83×10^26^ W? that's so much that the energy output by the Sun in just one hour could power the Earth for about 56.1 trillion years at the current global consumption rate. Or, if you ....blah blah blah something something Kardashev scale....

yeaaaa not my proudest move

[–] pixelscript@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

On the other hand, if you average the Sun's energy generation across its entire volume and adjust for that volume's mass, an equivalent mass of human body tissue generates more heat energy.

So your eyes may not have the raw lumen output of an entire star; but, pound for pound, your eyes would outshine a similarly massive piece of one.

[–] addictedtochaos@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

i kinda do no get it, can you explain it in some other way?

like, 100 kilos of sun would generate less heat energy than 100 kilos of me?

[–] pixelscript@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yes. On average.

If you specifically take 100 kilos of core material from the Sun, then it would be a no contest victory for the Sun. But the Sun is very, very big, and when it comes to producing energy, most of it is doing absolutely nothing. So it brings the average energy production per kilo way, way down.

[–] addictedtochaos@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

thanks, i think i got it! average matter of the sun has less energy density or IR radiation or what have you, than average matter of me. thannks! that will come in händi as trivia.

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