[lit-ideas] Re: Fwd: Re: global luke-warming -- addendum
- From: Paul Stone <pas@xxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 13:17:00 -0400
You are not seriously suggesting that average
temperature of the oceans is caused by gravity?
not at all.
That there is so and so much of 4C water is due to
temperature, that it is in the bottom is due to the
unique qualities of water and gravity.
Yes, but in order to GET the heat into that lower 3750 metres, which is
currently at 4 C you have to umm... get it there. The thicker the boundary
layer gets, the tenuous this proposition gets. The only calculation I was
doing was a rough, how many btus would it take to heat up the ocean
(ignoring all deleterious effects which would surely inhibit this heating,
i.e. radiation at night, wind convection heat removal, currents,
evaporation, cloudy days, etc) to a significant enough temperature so that
it would expand to actually make the water level rise in any real way.
> Maybe some of the
> trillions of dollars we
> would have to spend on reducing those emissions,
Trillions of dollars seems to me off by factor of 10.
Energy isn't that BIG a component of modern economies.
For example, the total amount of oil consumed annually
in USA is worth about $500 billion (20 million bbl/day
* 365 * 70).
But David Ritchie, noted that the price of a barrel is only about 48% of
the street price, so let's compromise, and double your 500 bill to ONE
trillion.
p
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