re: Giving this nonsense a quick merciful death- ONCE AND FOR ALL!
You said:
The WORLD power consumption is estimated to be 12*1012 Watts, if we were to do the above calculation using 12*1012 Watts instead of 4*109 Watts we would get a temperature increase ~3000 times larger, or: .000066 degrees.
Is this 12*1012 Watts the electrical power consumption?
If that is the electrical power consumption, then you should add the generation loss which is about 60 percent.
Then if you calculate the total for a 40 year period, and add to that the increase of kinetic energy of the nuclei in nuclear power plants, and after that calculate how much water such an amount of power can vaporize, then you might come close to solving the reason why the lakes are drying.
See ER’s post above on 11/6/2007 3:39:47 PM
And my post on 10/30/2007 11:44:30 AM
All the Great Lakes, which together make up about 20 percent of the world's fresh surface water, have been in decline since the late 1990s. Lakes Huron and Michigan are about 2 feet below their long-term average levels, while Lake Superior is about 20 inches off. Lake Ontario is about 7 inches below its long-term average and Lake Erie is a few inches down.
You agree that global warming is a reality, all I am saying is that the influence of the extra nuclear activity created by the nuclear power plants, may be adding to the environmental problems.
Perhaps your numbers are not taking into consideration ALL the effects that are possible in a nuclear fission reaction.
How do these nuclear numbers compare against the greenhouse gas generated numbers?
You wrote:
The snippets you regurgitated have NOTHING to do with nuclear power, they simply discuss research on the solar wind, and talk about a process that has been going on for billions of years.
Obviously you have limited your mental functions to numbers and are unable to draw mental associations.
The reference was intended to show that molecules ARE escaping the Earth’s atmosphere, and if there is an increase in the kinetic energy of molecules in the upper atmosphere or the area known as thermosphere, then more molecules will escape from that area into space.
IF the global temperature increases by any means at all, then more molecules will obtain grater kinetic energy.
I suspect that the nuclear disintegrations that are triggered within induced nuclear reactions may be responsible for increasing the kinetic energy of the atmospheric molecules.
The gamma rays that are emitted in most nuclear reactions have the ability to penetrate through a great distance of air, but part of that energy can also interact with the air molecules and in that process the said molecule’s kinetic energy will increase.
As you know gamma rays are far more energetic than infrared radiation.
Satellites have detected gamma rays coming from the Earth, I speculate that these gamma rays originate in the nuclear reactions of nuclear power plants.
May as well re-read the info about other problems, there may be a relationship between various effects.
In Spain, the nuclear power plant at Santa Maria de Garoña, one of eight Spanish reactors, was shut down last weekend due to the high temperatures recorded in the river Ebro, into which the reactor drains the water used in its cooling system.
"Now, with global warming leading to extreme hot summers, we are witnessing that it is the other way round," Lhomme said. "Global warming is showing the limits of nuclear power plants, and nuclear power is destroying our environment."