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re: Nice numbers.

you wrote:

I must apologize for not speaking your language, I simply assumed that you can not have power without energy.


This is NOT a matter of speaking MY language, its a matter of speaking a language that isnt gibberish... confusing Energy and Power is the same as confusing speed and distance... to say that 'a car has a top speed of 120 miles' makes you sound like an idiot...

You are obsessed with your delusional crusade, yet you are not willing to even TRY to learn the facts and physics that show your claims to be ridiculous. The calculations I did required only addition, multiplication and division... I intentionally made assumptions and simplifications that would tend to push the numbers in your favor and STILL I showed the effects were negligeable...

A more accurate calculation setting up differential equations that inlcuded the various rates of heat input and output would lead to temperature increases FAR less than the numbers I calculated. 1,000 MW or 1,000,000 MW, it doesnt matter, the heating of the environment from nuclear power is lost in the noise- as I pointed out below just the power output of the 5 billion human bodies on the earth is 500 BILLION Watts, or 500,000 MW.

The power of sunlight falling on the property of a nuclear power plant at mid-day is roughly 1,500 MW per square kilometer. WHY do you act like there is something magical about thermal energy derived from nuclear power?!

The radius of the earth is ~6,350 km, so the sunlight falling on the earth is ~(1,500 W/m2)*Pi*(6,350,000 m)2= ~1.9*1017 Watts= 1.9*1011 Mega Watts= 190 BILLION Megawatts.... The equivalent of every man woman and child running a 38 Mega Watt reactor.

I find that there was somewhere around 377,686,000KW of electrical power produced by nuclear power plants in the world back in the year 2001. It takes about 15 GL per year to cool a 1 MW nuclear power plant, therefore it will take 15 * 377,686 = 388,433,890 (NOTE: AS USUAL YOU ARE OFF BY ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE, AND THAT IS GRADE SCHOOL MULTIPLICATION) GL per year to cool those reactors and each litre of water is initially raised in temperature by at least 36F. I'd say it's a lot of piss that does affect the environment.


IF you had read what I wrote and followed the simple math you would realize that the effect is negligeable.

You are not interested in learning, you just refuse to accept you are completely wrong... you dont even have the ability to do a SIMPLE calculation, yet you insist you are right and that those with PhD's are wrong... At some point you stop being stubbornly stupid and you become pathologically delusional.

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