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Jehovah—The One Who Is Vigorous in PowerThe Watchtower—2000 | March 1
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Most of the electricity on which we depend comes indirectly from the earth’s most reliable power source—the sun.a Every second this solar reactor consumes five million tons of nuclear fuel, showering the earth with life-sustaining energy.
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Jehovah—The One Who Is Vigorous in PowerThe Watchtower—2000 | March 1
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a It is widely held that such fossil fuels as oil and coal—the principal sources of energy for power stations—derive their energy from the sun.
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Jehovah—The One Who Is Vigorous in PowerThe Watchtower—2000 | March 1
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For example, they tell us that our sun every second emits energy equivalent to the explosion of 100,000 million megatons of TNT.b A very small fraction of that energy reaches the earth; yet that is enough to sustain all life on our planet.
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Jehovah—The One Who Is Vigorous in PowerThe Watchtower—2000 | March 1
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b In contrast, the most powerful nuclear bomb ever tested had an explosive power equivalent to 57 megatons of TNT.
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