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Originally Posted by Coen
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The maximum energy impacting on 1 square metre of the Earth's surface from the Sun is on the order of 1,000 watts (1kW). Thus if our solar collectors were 100% efficient then that is the maximum we can obtain if everything else was working in our favour.
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Actually closer to 1370W/m^2.
In so far as efficiency of energy production, the pp chain reaction at the Sun's core runs at an efficiency of 0.7%, so that means 99.3% of the fuel is not converted into energy through the fusion process.