Sentences with phrase «fraction of the incoming solar»
Capturing just a tiny fraction of the incoming solar energy is enough to meet human energy needs (and wind energy is a product of the incoming solar energy as well).
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If the surface plus atmosphere together acts as a gray body at 288 K with e = 0.61, then only 61 % of incoming solar radiation at thermal infrared wavelengths (a small fraction of the total) will be absorbed.
Let the top layer be a gray body with emissivity e and suppose it also absorbs a fraction f of the incoming solar radiation.
Five to six times as much incoming solar radiation is reflected back to space from clouds as from the Earth's surface (of which only a fraction is from snow or ice).