Wait with reading this. I found some minor errors. I will repost later. Maybe i put this on ArXiv, what do you say?
David David Jonsson, Sweden, phone callto:+46703000370 On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 8:26 PM, David Jonsson <[email protected] > wrote: > Here I show that there is no heat production in the earth interior. If you > build power plants to extract the heat you basically shrink the globe. You > only use potential energy or elastic energy. > > The calculation also nullifies a source of global heating. The heat flow > through the earth crust was assumed to be around twice the human energy > consumption ( > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geothermal_(geology)#Heat_flow<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geothermal_%28geology%29#Heat_flow>). > > David > > David Jonsson, Sweden, phone callto:+46703000370 > > On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 7:21 PM, Nick Palmer <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Re: the extra heat into the environment if we use deep geothermal wells. >> >> I wrote the following in my "Cold Fusion - an environmentalist's >> perspective" article for Infinite Energy magazine. >> >> >> >> "The human population is forecast to stabilise at around 11 billion by the >> middle of the next century and if each human was then using a constant 30 >> kilowatts, which may very well happen if we have unlimited energy to run our >> homes, transport and manufacturing processes etc, then we would be adding >> around an extra 1/750 of the heat that Earth intercepts from the sun. This >> might be insignificant globally but, as the climate seems to have a fractal >> nature and be vulnerable to the "butterfly effect", it may conversely have >> large effects. Fractional changes in the solar insolation due to tiny >> variations in Earth's orbit are thought to account for the periodicity of >> ice ages. In any event, the outpouring of so much waste heat in areas of >> high population density would certainly have an effect on the local >> microclimate and so this effect should be guarded against - it may be that >> we will need to radiate the waste heat into the night sky to get rid of it." >> >> >> >> If geothermal proved to be a problem, I think it would be easily soluble. >> >> >> >> Nick Palmer >> >> On the side of the Planet - and the people - because they're worth it >> > >
