WE HAVE A NEW RECORD: Wilma 175 mph, -GW ain't it COOL? :-)
Time to do our math exercise again, Ray...
At 15 mile radius, the Hurricane center of the storm is R^2xPI=A
706.9 Square miles. Rainfall is 10-15 inches inside the Hurricane area.
Say 12" (one foot) for easy math.
There are 5280x5280 sq.ft. per sq.mi = 27,878,400 sq.ft/mile
27,878,400 x 706.9 s.mi. = 19,707,240,960 cubic feet of water.
There are 7.48 gallons per cu.ft (remember this, you will use it
often).
7.48 x 19,707,240,960 cubic feet = 138,896,634,286,080 gallons
There are 240 gallons per ton (remember this, it's hard to find if you
try to look it up later).
138,896,634,286,080 gallons divided by 240 = 578,735,976,192 tons
Or say 578.7 megatons.
There are 3785.412 CC per gallon, or 5.2578098619e17 CCs in those 578.7
megatons of water. The water temperature was measured by buoys at 29oC.
It takes 71 calories to raise each CC to 100oC plus 600 calories to
change state from liquid to vapor, or 671 calories per CC.
This comes to 3.5279904173e20 calories of energy. Calories are somewhat
awkward to use on this scale, so convert to megawatt-hours:
410,305,300,000.
This is the Global Warming energy being carried aloft 12 kilometers
high to -70oC cloudtops, flash-frozen with the heat energy expelled,
and falling as microhail to remelt on it's way down to condense as
rain.
That's 410 giga-megawatt-hours of WASTED solar energy. The pro-rata
portion for 6bn people is 68.4 megawatthours per man, woman and baby
around the world. My share would power my house for 29 years at the
rate I consumed electricity on my last PG&E bill.
This energy exists regardless of GLOBAL WARMING. With GW it is trapped
and caught in the Carribean. Without GW it radiates to space. In either
case it is no used by a supposedly rational intelligent species.
Now that math is the math for the storm duration over one point in
geography. The storm moves and leaves the evidence of it's heat content
as rain. We looked at on passage of the storm.
from the last advisory:
WILMA IS MOVING TOWARD THE WEST-NORTHWEST NEAR 8 MPH...13 KM/HR. A TURN
TOWARD THE NORTHWEST IS EXPECTED DURING THE NEXT 24 HOURS.
The thirty-mile hurricane core moving at 8 mph will cross the
geographic point in 3 hours and 45 minutes. Then it will dissipate that
energy all over again, discarding another 410 giga-megawatt-hours of
WASTED solar energy. In four mour hours it will do it again, another
410 giga-megawatt-hours of WASTED solar energy.
That's what H2-PV is all about. Picking up that manna from heaven and
giving the dirty KOCH SUCKERS the finger. There's also quite a few
7-figure salaries for smart guys who get in on the ground floor.
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