Re: Heat

[JHByrne]

In a message dated 10/31/2002 4:54:46 PM Alaskan Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Consideration of the amount of heat required to melt the ice question:
In the calculation of the amount of heat required was it considered that as
the probe descends from the surface the stress increases in a linear fashion
= density of ice X depth.  Thus, as the ice melts and the bonds break, the
ice will strain and new ice will continue to move in the direction of the
probe until the maximum deformation, as a function of depth.  What will be
the pore water pressure around the probe?  What will happen at the water-ice
interface?
Leonardo

These sound like questions you are more qualified to answer than the rest of us, with the possible exception of Jack Reeve. 
Leonardo, do you think the piezocone concept is what we need, for our limited scale model?
-- JHB