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You can.

Oil consumption is about 4,000 TWh per year, or about 10^19 Joules.

The Earth receives about 170,000 TWh per year of Solar energy.

xbmcuser 44 days ago [–]

The Earth receives approximately 173,000 terawatts (TW) of solar power continuously, not per year.

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