What is the Relationship Between Solar Wind and Kinetic Energy?

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Homework Statement


At what rate does the solar wind carry kinetic energy away from the sun? Give your result first in watts, then as a fraction of the Sun's luminosity in photons, L=3.8*10^26 W


Homework Equations


KE=(1/2)mv^2
mass loss of sun- Msunloss=4πr2vρ


The Attempt at a Solution


I think this is one of those problems that seems so simple I am second guessing myself. Is it really as simple as input the mass loss of the sun in for my m in the KE formula and then dividing it by a second to find the wattage and then converting into luminosity?
 
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