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Curious: for the latter I get 7e21 J, using Wikipedia's normal-insolation figure of 947 W and its Earth albedo of 0.3. That's an order of magnitude greater. I'm probably missing something, do you have a source?

(Of course my figure would only increase the difference you're pointing out.)



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