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Offline smithy

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Re: An invention thats needed and would be worth billions
« on: July 19, 2004, 02:40:35 PM »
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Calculate the kind of power you need to warm a 5x8x2.5m room by 8C and you get a feeling of what is just being wasted.


I bet only a fraction of that 8C rise is down to electrical stuff... there is a much bigger energy-emitter in the room - YOU!

A human being emits a lot of heat!  Try putting a hat & gloves on, a big coat and covering as much skin as possible... I bet you'll find your room will barely rise in temperature at all! :-)




 

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Re: An invention thats needed and would be worth billions
« Reply #1 on: July 19, 2004, 05:13:05 PM »
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A human being emits a lot of heat!


Doh!  This is the real reason for global warming.

In 1950 there were 2.5 billion people in the world, today there are 6.3 billion - those extra 3.8 billion people are probably responsible for the average temperature to have risen by 0.6C (http://carto.eu.org/article2480.html) in the last 54 years....

Over the next 46 years, according to the US Censor Bureau (http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/worldpop.html), global population growth will slow down... perhaps this will cause, a slowdown in the average temperature rise.