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Big Systems

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Solar Radiation   Around 100 trillion Watts or solar energy (light and infra-red rays) hit the Earth. That is around 1.3 kW/m2.  
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Cosmic Radiation   These are high energy sub-atomic particles. Small in overall bulk that may affect Earth such as triggering lightning.  
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Comet hits   These rarely happen now, but have occurred in the distant past. This must have been where most of our water came from originally.  
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Dust hitting Earth   This could be as low as 5 tonnes per day, but could be several hundred tonnes. We don't know.  
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Heat Leakage   Heat as infra-red rays.  
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Gas Leakage   3kg H2 and 50g He per second.  
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