Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1908 — Sun’s Heat. [ARTICLE]

Sun’s Heat.

Popularly speaking, the heat of the sun is such that the total annual output of all the earth’s coal mines would serve to keep up the solar radiation for only one-forty-millionth part of a second. If the earth was a solid mass of coal and could be supplied to the solar furnace it would last just 36 hours. The same difficulty attends the attempt to mentally realize the amount of {he solar heat that is appropriated by our planet Science has demonstrated that the amount of the sun’s heat caught by the earth is only the 2,250-millionth part In other words, the heat of the sun is sufficient to warm np 2,250,000,000 worlds the size of the one we are living in.— New Tork American.