On Sun, 13 May 2012 19:34:03 -0700 (PDT), DOUBLE-ACES
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kashmir...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 13 May 2012 19:41:22 -0600, AGWFacts <
AGWF...@1800reality.com> wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 13 May 2012 19:59:07 -0500, Bill Snyder
> > <
bsn...@airmail.net> wrote:
> >
> > > On Sun, 13 May 2012 18:23:50 -0600, AGWFacts
> > > <
AGWF...@1800reality.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > >On Sun, 13 May 2012 23:54:02 -0000,
ji...@specsol.spam.sux.com
> > > >> > On 5/13/12 2:31 PM, AGWFacts wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> >> Previously I had written in these two newsgroups, several times,
> > > >> >> that the amount of energy being retained by Earth due to our
> > > >> >> release of CO2 into the atmosphere is equal to about 2,880
> > > >> >> Hiroshima Atom Bombs ("Big Boy") per day.
> > > >> >>
> > > >> >> I was horrible wrong, for which I apologize. That number is no
> > > >> >> where near the actual value.
> > > >
> > > >> > Earth is gaining 0.6 W/m^2 or about 400,000 Hiroshima Atom Bombs/day.
> > > >
> > > >> The Hiroshima bomb, Little Boy (not "Big Boy") released somewhere
> > > >
> > > >Yes: that is one of two errors I had made. The second error was
> > > >the estimate amount of energy released by the bomb.
> > > >
> > > >> between 54-75 TJ
> > > >
> > > >Aprox 63 terajoules according to Los Alamos. [4, 5]
> > > >
> > > >> and the surface of the Earth is about 510,000,000 km^2.
> > > >
> > > >Yes. 510,072,000,000 square meters. [1]
> >
> > > Isn't that about 3 orders of magnitude too low? 510 * 10^6 km^2
> > > is 510 * 10^12 m^2.
> >
> > WikiPedia states 510,072,000 km^2 so I added three zeros.
> > 510,072,000,000 m^2, or 510*10^9 which was *WRONG.* Damn it.
> >
> > My convertion program says 510,072,000 km^2 equals 5.10072e+014
> > m^2 which is 510,072,000,000,000 so you are 100% correct, and I am
> > 100% wrong once again.
> >
> > >>> Show your math to get to a number of 0.6 with units of W/m^2.
> >
> > > >It's 0.58 watt per square meter, plus or minus 0.15 watt per
> > > >square meter. [2] If I did the math correctly, Earth is retaining
> > > >anomalously, due chiefly to human-released CO2, 295,841,760,000
> > > >joules per second. That's 426 terajoules per 24 hours, or 6.78
> > > >Hiroshima atom bombs per day. If Sam Wormley or anyone else cares
> > > >to correct me, I will thank her or him very much for doing so.
> >
> > > That looks 'way off, too, unless I'm doing something very wrong.
> > >
> > > Lessee, 510 * 10^12 m^2 * 0.58 W/m^2 is about 296 * 10^12 W, or
> > > about 1000 times your figure per comment above. Multiply by
> > > 86,400 seconds/day to get around 2.55 * 10^19 J, or 2.55 * 10^7
> > > TJ.
> >
> > 295,841,760,000,000 joules for 86,400 seconds, given a surface
> > area of 510,072,000,000,000 square meters at 0.58 watt per square
> > meter. 25,560,728,064,000,000,000 Joules a day.
> >
> > > It looks like maybe you multiplied by the number of minutes
> > > in a day, rather than the number of seconds.
> >
> > You are right, I am once again wrong, damn me.
> >
> > 25,560,728,064,000,000,000 Joules a day
> >
> > 62,760,000,000,000 One Hiroshima bomb
> >
> > 407,277 Hiroshima bombs per day.
> >
> > Thank you for the correction. I was indeed off by three orders.
> Do scientist use wikipedia for information on technical theories? or
> is it just you who does that?
Are you claiming the value for Earth's surface area given in
WikiPedia is wrong? If so, why don't you edit the page and fix it?