system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
How much energy does the human race use in a day? How much does the Earth absorb from the Sun in a day?

Are we using more or less energy than the Sun provides? And by how much?
gpt
About 1.21* 10^17 watts is absorbed by the earth from the sun. There are 86400 seconds in a day which corresponds to 1.04* 10^22 Joules a day. In  2008 we used 144,000 terrawatt hours which corresponds to 5.2* 10^20 Joules. So Earth receives 20 times more energy in a day than we use in a Year, so we use about .014% of the sun's energy that hits earth.