The Sun's Energy | AdventAI

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Nov 27, 1879

The Sun's Energy.

An approximate idea may be formed of the sun's energy from the following calculation of the rainfall in Cincinnati, which was recently published in the Cincinnati Commercial: "The weight of the rain which fell on Cincinnati on Tuesday of last week was 2,333,571 tons. The weight of one cubic foot of water is 62½ pounds; the weight of 1½ inches of water spread over one acre is 340,312½ pounds; the weight of 1½ inches of water, spread over one square mile is 217,800,000 pounds. The area of Cincinnati is 24 square miles. Over the entire area of Cincinnati there fell, therefore, 5,227,200,000 pounds, or 2,333,571 tons weight. This enormous body of water was lifted up from the earth by the evaporative power of the sun."