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"No matter how dubious one may be of such hugage realizations of our potentials, the fact remains that our net receipt and impoundment of cosmic energy amounts to 168 quintillion horsepower-per-minute, which is also statable as 125 quintillion kilowatts per minute which, with 525,600 minutes per year amounts to 66 septillion kilowatts per year ( 66 x 10^24 KW), which is eleven-billionfold the world's present 5 x 10^6 KW production of electric energy power.
"If all humanity enjoyed 1973's 'highest' living standards, each human on Earth would consume 200,000 (2 x 10^5) calories per day. Assuming 5 billion ( 5 x 10^9) humans by 2000 A.D, each consuming 2 x 10^5 calories daily, we will need 1 x 10^15 calories per day. Our actual daily terrestrial income of cosmic energy is 72 x 10^20 calories. Our planet's usable daily energy income is therefore 72 x 10^5 = seven-millionfold, our daily requirements of 2000 A.D."
Citations
- RBF Ltr to Mrs. Peggy Rockefeller, 25 May'73
