Re: For Your Information

On Mon, 19 Sep 2005 18:26:33 GMT, "Chris"
<nimbo@(no-spam)ukonline.co.uk> wrote:

>Well it does look like, from your calculations that you are right. However
>a 2000 MT hydrogen bomb would throw up a dust cloud which apart from some
>radioactivity it would cut down solar radiation for several years thus
>cutting photosynthesis and cutting the food supply for all life forms
>including plant life.
>
>I believe this could last longer than five years and the collapse of the
>planet food chain would ensure large scale extictions and a devastating fall
>in the human population through starvation.
>
>This was called a nuclear winter.

Dust cloud would be short lived.. (I suspect it's no more than a large
forest fire)..

What causes nuclear winter is the wide scale combustion of all the
secondary fuel sources, cities, forests, etc. (Far more energy than
initial blasts). That isn't going to happen with a very large single
point detonation, as the curvature of earth will limit initial thermal
ignition radius.

>
>Katrina was just another storm, thuderstorms release more energy than a
>hydrogen bomb (uspecified yeild) but cause very little disturbance and are a
>benefit.
>
>Chris.
>
>
>"Tim Keating" <NotForJunkEmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> On Sun, 18 Sep 2005 19:05:35 GMT, "Chris"
>> <nimbo@(no-spam)ukonline.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>
>>>There is no upper limit to hydrogen bombs and yeilds of over 500 Mtonnes
>>>are
>>>destabalising to the ecoology of the planet, a bomb of 2000 MT would
>>>probably put an end to life on earth.
>>
>>
>> A 2000 MT bomb wouldn't even come close ending life on our planet..
>>
>> I.E. 2000 x 4.184*10^15 joules == 8.368 * 10^18 joules..
>>
>> Meanwhile every 19 hours hurricane Katrina consumed & mostly
>> converted into mechanical energy the heat equivalent of the US total
>> electricity generation for a year or... ~1.39 * 10^19 joules.
>>
>> In other words, it would take at least ~10,000MT to match Katrina..
>> And Katrina was in no way was a threat to the whole world nor the
>> existence of life.
>

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