Sunbathing is so hardcore: deliberately exposing oneself to the EM blast of a gigantic H-bomb explosion.
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so if you calculate the power density of the Sun, it turns out around the same as that of a large compost heap
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per unit volume. it's 0.27W/m³. the figure per unit mass is even less appealing, about 1mW/kg
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oh, this is not quite right--I quoted the average figures, but 99% of the power is generated within 0.24 of the radius
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so, corrected figures: ~34W/m^3 and ~5mW/kg if we only take the core into account.
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More Wikipedia research: Hoover Dam for comparison: just under 1 kW max power output per m^3 dam capacity
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