Re: Tap the supervolcanoes to prevent a worldwide catastrophy

From: Ed Earl Ross (edearl_at_satx.rr.com)
Date: 01/13/05 

Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 15:45:43 GMT

G. R. L. Cowan wrote:
> Ed Earl Ross wrote:
>
>>habshi wrote:
>>
>>> Geothermal is probably renewable as it is based on radiocative
>>>decay in the earth
>>
>>The source of geothermal heat is hotly debated.
>
>
> By you, maybe.

See:
http://www.geology.sdsu.edu/how_volcanoes_work/Heat.html
http://www.expanding-earth.org/

The debate is about how much heat various sources provide. Some say
any fission reaction within the core would have long past used all
its fissionable material.

>>Friction from tidal forces is another possibility.
>
>
> Very significant for the largest, nearest-in Jovian moons.
> Not so for Earth; anyway the plausible existence
> of a kilowatt or two very of such heat production deep in the Earth
> does not imply that many terawatts of alpha decay and beta decay
> aren't also occurring --
>
> What's that!? Do you smell argon?
>
>
> -- Graham Cowan
> http://www.eagle.ca/~gcowan/Paper_for_11th_CHC.html --
> How individual mobility gains nuclear cachet

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