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stelliosk | 3 years ago

"Experts Doubt the Sun Is Actually Burning Coal Originally published in August 1863"

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/experts-doubt-the...

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xref|3 years ago

> is impossible that the sun should constantly be giving out heat, without either losing heat or being supplied with new fuel. Assuming that the heat of the sun has been kept up by meteoric bodies falling into it…

Neat article, they were asking all the right questions. Calculating how long a coal body could burn, and a mechanism/quantity required to refuel it based on the mass of the solar system