The United States consumes about 420 billion watts of power per year. Auroras (northern, and southern lights, caused by interactions between Earth’s magnetosphere and the solar wind) carry large quantities of power. The Great Aurora of 20 November 2003 carried about 8237 billion watts of power. If all this energy could have been harvested, for how many years would it have powered the country?

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