8-11-2010
"The Ascent
of Science"
Brian Silver
OUP

"Per kilo, a human being produces 10,000 times the energy produced by the Sun in the same time. But (big but) the mass of the Sun is 1019 times that of the total mass of the population of the Earth, so the Sun produces 1015 times the heat energy produced by the whole population of the Earth in the same time."