And it looks like it's saying that the energy produced by nuclear fusion (which happens in the relatively small core) divided by the entire mass of the sun, gives you that low number.

Terrestrial fusion power plants are aiming to be sun cores, so that all the hydrogen they put in gets fused, and not just a few atoms here and there.

[–] CleoTheWizard@lemmy.world 6 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Why do people assume that scientists don’t sanity check themselves? Genuine question, no offense to the OC here.

[–] cazssiew@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

"guys, I know we've been working on this for decades, but I've been going over this first-year textbook, and I have some bad news..."