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Off Topic » in reply to re: There are some 6 billion people on the planet, if we all

It is not correct.
TB — (archived)

how big would the puddle be in 60 years?

I figure it, given a urine output per person of 137 gallons a year, at about 1.87 x 10^14 liters, or a touch more than the volume of Lake Tahoe. You can check my math if you like. I might have diddled a decimal point.

Of course, that would be assuming that the lake had no outflow.

http://webdiary.smh.com.au/archives/images/2005/energy-budget.jpg


This is the energy balance of the planet Earth, per square meter. Add up the square meters, and plug your own numbers in from man-made only radioactive heating. What do you see? How much do your number affect what's going in and what's coming out?

--Stored nuclear fuel in sealed containers delivers very little heat to the atmosphere. The millions of convection ovens and toasters in use around America probably do a lot more to heat up the air.

--The leaks referred to are not gallons of tritium, but gallons of steam with trace elements of radioactive isotopes

The total energy that hits the Earth from the Sun every second is about 1.74 x 10^17 J. This is, by my calculations if I've figured out the conversion right, about 160 times the total wattage generated by every operating nuclear reactor on the planet, going full out.

Energy figure from this table, which I recommend you bookmark.

Johannes, you're a nice guy, but you do NOT have the equipment for this kind of analysis. Find something else to worry about.

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