Re: Chernobyl " population will continue to slide toward extinction "

[Ted de Castro <tdc@XRAYTED.COM>]

There is no point in debating this - someone somewhere MUST know the

numbers!!



What is the energy consumption per sq meter for cities???  Industrial

campuses??  etc.  I think it reasonable to assume that one way or the

other MOST of it goes to waste heat.



Now compare this to 1 kW/M^2 (peak during the day of course!)



I don't have the numbers nor know where to look - but someone in power

MUST have these kinds of numbers.



So - how about a few cold facts to calm a hot discussion!



I would bet that solar wins - overwhelmingly - but could be convinced

otherwise.



RuthWeiner@AOL.COM wrote:

> 

> Clearly all heat converted on the earth initially came from the sun,

> abnd

> certainly there is direct re-radiation of solar radiation.  However,

> it is

> very well understood that local climate change often depends heavily

> (thought

> maybe not 100%) on dissipated heat from some sort of energy

> conversion.

> Example:  the Florida everglades (where there are essentially no

> motorized

> vehicles or human habitation) cool off sufficiently at night to

> produce weak

> temperature inversions and are noticeably cooler than South Miami,

> which is

> at the same latitude, gets the same amount of solar irradiation, and

> even has

> a slightly better cooling mechanism with easterlies off the ocean.

> (These are

> direct observations:  I lived there for four years.)

> 

> There is clearly no singe identifiable "cause" for the heat that is

> trapped

> by CO2, but I disagree strongly with a position that dismisses the

> very large

> amount of dissipated heat generated by energy conversion.

> 

> Ruth Weiner, Ph. D.

> ruthweiner@aol.com

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