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Article #14497Re: How much global warming(GW) is our local mascon good for?
From: The Ghost In The Machine
Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 16:42
Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 16:42
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In sci.physics, BradGuth
<bradguth@gmail.com>
wrote
on 12 May 2007 13:47:23 -0700
<1179002843.353159.19910@e65g2000hsc.googlegroups.com>:
> On May 7, 9:53 pm, The Ghost In The Machine
> <e...@sirius.tg00suus7038.net> wrote:
>
>> I'm frankly not sure whereBradis getting his
>> 7.2 * 10^24 W from; the insolation on the Moon
>> is at most about 1.28 * 10^16 W
>> = 1350 W/m^2 * 3.793 * 10^13 m^2 / 4 .
>
> Take away that hocus-pocus force of gravity, then connect that moon
> via a rather substantial CNT tether, and do the math for whatever that
> amount of force represents in joules(watts/sec) or in kw/hr.
>
> One such online calculator places such required energy at roughly 2e20
> joules or 7.2e21 kw/hr (that's excluding whatever tether mass or
> friction, though especially if you've given any credit for that moon's
> orbital friction and a little something extra for that 38 mm/yr worth
> of recession).
> -
> Brad Guth
>
Interesting. Not sure how I can calculate the contribution of tidal
friction to this debate, but presumably there is some.
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