Some of the heat inside the Earth is left over from its formation. The remaining heat is thought to be generated by radioactive decay, however, I remember reading somewhere that the actual particle flux due to radioactive decay is less than what is required. I am not sure if this discrepancy has been explained yet.
Harry On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 1:48 AM, Axil Axil <[email protected]> wrote: > Unless science understands how LENR produces heat inside planets, they > will be faced with mounting numbers of unsolvable cosmological conundrums. > > Scientists shocked to find Mercury has liquid metal core and a magnetic > field like Earth > MAY 13, 2015 BY DAN TAYLOR > > Scientists shocked to find Mercury has liquid metal core and a magnetic > field like Earth > > NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft smashed into the planet's surface on April 30 > after four years in orbit, but not before sending back some amazing data. > > Scientists were floored recently after getting back data from NASA’s > MESSENGER space probe that showed that Mercury has a core filled with > sloshing liquid metal, much like Earth — and they’re scratching their heads > as to how that’s possible. > > Mercury had been thought to be too small to have a liquid core, as > scientists believed the metal would have cooled relatively quickly in its > history, but the MESSENGER space probe sent back data before slamming into > the planet on April 30 that indicated that yes, its core still contains > molten metal, and that metal is creating a magnetic field similar to that > of Earth, according to a Space.com report. > > It’s nowhere near as powerful — scientists estimate that it is 100 times > weaker than Earth’s. But the findings still surprised scientists who > thought they would find a solid rock core much like the other rocky planets > in our solar system. The findings shed new light on the evolution of > Mercury, the closest planet to the sun and the smallest planet in the solar > system, and will force scientists to rethink how it developed. > > On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 5:18 PM, Axil Axil <[email protected]> wrote: > >> It has proven for the first time that the deepest part of the lunar >> mantle is soft, based upon the agreement between observation results and >> the theoretical calculations. >> The research team also clarified that heat is efficiently generated by >> the tides in the soft part, deepest in the mantle. >> >> In general, a part of the energy stored inside a celestial body by tidal >> forces (caused by being pushed and pulled by its partner, in this case >> Earth, as it orbits) is changed to heat. >> The heat generation depends on the softness of the interior. >> >> Whereas previous research also suggests that some part of the energy >> inside the moon due to the tidal forces is changed to heat, the present >> research indicates that this type of energy conversion does not uniformly >> occur in the entire moon, but only intensively in a soft layer. >> The research team believes that the soft layer is now warming the core of >> the moon as the core seems to be wrapped by the layer, which is located in >> the deepest part of the mantle, and which efficiently generates heat. >> >> They also expect that a soft layer like this may efficiently have warmed >> the core in the past as well. >> >> >> Read more: >> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2719809/Is-moon-s-core-MOLTEN-Centre-satellite-wrapped-layer-soft-rock-claim-scientists.html#ixzz40SvO0v6m >> >> >> The moon's core could well be heated by cold fusion. The assumptions made >> about the moons molten core sound far fetched. A soft layer would not has >> formed when the moon cooled. All less dense stuff would have risen upward >> during the cooling process. >> >> Without cold fusion science does not make sense. >> >> On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 2:05 PM, Peter Gluck <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> >>> Good surprises are necessary. >>> >>> http://egooutpeters.blogspot.ro/2016/02/feb-17-2016-lenr-sacred-cow-candidates.html >>> >>> Best wishes, >>> Peter >>> -- >>> Dr. Peter Gluck >>> Cluj, Romania >>> http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com >>> >> >> >
