Caption: A main source of the 44 trillion watts of heat that flows from the interior of the Earth is the decay of radioactive isotopes in the mantle and crust. Scientists using the KamLAND neutrino detector in Japan have measured how much heat is generated this way by capturing geoneutrinos released during radioactive decay.
Credit: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
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1 posted on
07/17/2011 3:00:15 PM PDT by
decimon
To: SunkenCiv
2 posted on
07/17/2011 3:01:53 PM PDT by
decimon
To: decimon
Al gore will tear this guy apart. Everyone knows that coal and CO2 are the culprits! /s
3 posted on
07/17/2011 3:05:50 PM PDT by
mountainlion
(AMERICA LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT.)
To: decimon
Emirel LaGasse.
He keeps the earth cooking.
To: decimon
And who hung a nuclear device 93 million miles out in space from schools and hospitals fer cryin’ out loud??? Didja ever see the size of that thing????
5 posted on
07/17/2011 3:16:22 PM PDT by
SkyDancer
(You know, they invented wheelbarrows to teach FAA inspectors to walk on their hind legs.)
To: decimon
God
Colossians 1:17And He is before all things and in Him all things hold together.
7 posted on
07/17/2011 3:21:07 PM PDT by
Jemian
To: decimon
My guess is HOT AIR from DC is funneled into the core.
8 posted on
07/17/2011 3:32:53 PM PDT by
Drango
(NO-vember is payback for April 15th)
To: decimon
> Other sources – primordial heat left over from the planet's formation, and possibly others as well – must account for the rest.
What about all the kinetic energy involved when a mass the size of Earth rotates around its axis and simultaneously is rotating around both the Sun, our galaxy and whatever galactic super-cluster we are a part of?.
Calling Mr. Hoagland. Hyperdemsional physics anybody?.
9 posted on
07/17/2011 3:43:53 PM PDT by
ADemocratNoMore
(Jeepers, Freepers, where'd 'ya get those sleepers?. Pj people, exposing old media's lies.)
To: decimon
Wow! Heavy stuff.
Does Algore’s Nobel prize enable him to understand this stuff, or is he more baffled than I am??
11 posted on
07/17/2011 3:56:57 PM PDT by
Noob1999
To: decimon
That huge hole in the picture seems to be centered at California. That’s about the right size of a hole for the state budget....
To: decimon
So geothermal energy is nuclear energy.
The greenies won't let us use it, then.
16 posted on
07/17/2011 4:18:33 PM PDT by
E. Pluribus Unum
("A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves." - Bertrand de Jouvenel des Ursins)
To: decimon
"One thing we can say with near certainty is that radioactive decay alone is not enough to account for Earth's heat energy. Whether the rest is primordial heat or comes from some other source is an unanswered question."I find this quote VERY intriguing...
25 posted on
07/17/2011 6:44:13 PM PDT by
Paradox
(Obnoxious, Bumbling, Absurd, Maladroit, Assinine)
To: decimon
26 posted on
07/17/2011 6:45:12 PM PDT by
TexasTransplant
(Radical islam is real islam. Moderate islam is the trojan horse.)
To: decimon
Brilliant! You’ve got to love science. It’s going to be a bad day on Earth the day the planet’s heat engine shuts down.
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