Quotation from: General Science

Written by: Bertha M. Clark


All the energy of the sunshine which falls upon the cylinder, both as
heat and as light, is absorbed in the form of heat, and the total
amount of this energy can be calculated from the increase in the
temperature of the water. The energy which heated the water would have
passed onward to the surface of the earth if its path had not been
obstructed by the cylinder of water; and we can be sure that the
energy which entered the water and changed its temperature would
ordinarily have heated an equal area of the earth's surface; and from
this, we can calculate the energy falling upon the entire surface of
the earth during any one day.

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