Sucking sap uses 9.4 quadrillion watt-hours of power annually.
, climatologist Gregory Quetin and colleagues report August 17 in theThat’s about 90 percent of the amount of hydroelectric power produced worldwide in 2019.
drives the suction that pulls sap upward, says Quetin, of the University of California, Santa Barbara . To estimate the total evaporative power for all plants on Earth annually, the team divided up a map of the world’s land area into cells that span 0.5° of latitude by 0.5° of longitude and analyzed data for the mix of plants in each cell that were actively pumping sap each month.
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