# How much hydrogen does the sun use in one day?

4 million tons is converted into energy,/oer second..

#### Explanation:

Sun consumes 600 million tons per second and produce 598 million tons per second helium.rest 4 million is converted into energy.
4x3600x 24 x 365.242 tons per day.

Nov 15, 2017

The sun consumes $5 \times {10}^{13} T$ of hydrogen in one day.

Think of how long it would take you to collect one $T$ of hydrogen!

#### Explanation:

The amount of hydrogen the sun does use in one second is about 600 million tons of hydrogen. That's according to NASA.

Then in one day the sun would consume:

$\frac{6 \times {10}^{8} T}{\cancel{\sec}} \cdot 3600 \frac{\cancel{\sec}}{\cancel{h r}} \cdot 24 \frac{\cancel{h r}}{\mathrm{da} y} = 518400 \times {10}^{8} \frac{T}{\mathrm{da} y}$

If we were to consider the Earth has a mass of $1.35 x {10}^{21}$ tons, then the sun would burn up the entire earth in 70,000 years. - NASA
So you can: "Live Long and Prosper." - Star Trek

There is more information on the sun here (but be prepared to spend a lot of time at this site):
https://helios.gsfc.nasa.gov/qa_sun.html#consume