Re: Are nukes the answer to global warming?

From: Dan Bloomquist (EXTRApublic21_at_lakeweb.com)
Date: 02/11/05 

Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 01:13:30 GMT

bill wrote:
>
> This is better, actual numbers, an attempt at logic, keep at it
> grasshopper.

As I recall, you were the one waving your arms about. Volcanos and
lightning bolts.

> It seems I have mis-spoken again, for which I appologise, we are
> in fact speaking of giga-watt micro-wave beams (micro-wave lasers, I
> didn't specify the wavelength in my previous post) at least, in order
> to be useful.

Do crunch the numbers. It comes out to a couple of hundred watts/meter^2
for a practical GWatt implementation.

> btw, the 1.5 kw/m^2 figure is for orbital insolation, not ground
> level, ground level noon-time is less than 1/3 of that.

Poppy ***. It is more like 1.35 kw/meter^2. Where I live, noon sun in
the summer is over 900 w/meter^2. If you run my numbers... Wait, I'll do
it for you:

1 Megawatt / ( 35 * 35 ) = 816 w/meter^2. So you see, I had actually
rounded to your benefit, not mine.

> and no, I do
> not consider my 5 watt cell phone to be a hazardous radioactive object.

Good thing. It is hardly radioactive.

Best, Dan. 

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