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- From: ks19@ellis.uchicago.edu (kyle leigh swanson)
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- Subject: Re: Could a hurricane be destroyed?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.141927.2314@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 14:19:27 GMT
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- In article <10429@sun13.scri.fsu.edu> stricher@masig.fsu.edu (Char Aznabul) writes:
- >Nathan Gasser ><> writes
- >What is the energy use in a storm like this? It would be measured
- >in megatons at the very least. Several orders of magnitude larger
- >than a FAE, or even many nuke warheads.
- >
-
- The total energy is on the order of 10^18 cal/day, about .01% of the
- total solar energy intercepted by the earth each day. This is about
- an order of magnitude larger than the largest thermonuclear weapon.
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- Kyle Swanson
- Department of Geophysical Sciences
- University of Chicago
- k-swanson@uchicago.edu
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