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What keeps the Earth cooking?
DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ^ | July 17, 2011 | Unknown

Posted on 07/17/2011 3:00:13 PM PDT by decimon

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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.

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1 posted on 07/17/2011 3:00:15 PM PDT by decimon
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To: SunkenCiv

Watts happening ping.


2 posted on 07/17/2011 3:01:53 PM PDT by decimon
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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.)
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To: decimon

Emirel LaGasse.

He keeps the earth cooking.


4 posted on 07/17/2011 3:14:19 PM PDT by humblegunner
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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.)
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Don’t forget, that thing is not shielded!


6 posted on 07/17/2011 3:19:14 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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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
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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)
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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.)
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To: Army Air Corps

Yea, that too. Where the heck is the EPA?? Why haven’t they shut that thing down???


10 posted on 07/17/2011 3:55:46 PM PDT by SkyDancer (You know, they invented wheelbarrows to teach FAA inspectors to walk on their hind legs.)
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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
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Thanks decimon.
12 posted on 07/17/2011 3:57:38 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Yes, as a matter of fact, it is that time again -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: decimon; 75thOVI; agrace; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AndrewC; aragorn; aristotleman; ...

Thanks decimon.




13 posted on 07/17/2011 3:57:54 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Yes, as a matter of fact, it is that time again -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: SunkenCiv

*sheesh*
It’s still cooking because HE Said it WILL!

Science is OK, but one has to blend it with the teachings of The Giver of All Science.


14 posted on 07/17/2011 4:03:17 PM PDT by Monkey Face (Nothing is so bad that a good skirl on the Pipes can't cure! Long live sionnsar!)
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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....


15 posted on 07/17/2011 4:15:59 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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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)
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Thanks decimon.

Meet the neutrinos, same as the old trinos.


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17 posted on 07/17/2011 4:37:24 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Yes, as a matter of fact, it is that time again -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: ADemocratNoMore

Neither Earth’s rotation nor the periodic bending/warping of Earth’s crust by the Moon is not even close enough to raise Earth’s core to any more than 20 degrees Celcius.

The story of the discovery of radioactivity starts with - of all things - Darwin’s book: On the origin of Species (published in 1859). Darwin understood that evolution takes a very long time and he needed to support the evolution theory by showing that Earth is old enough to bring about life and evolution. Darwin assumed an erosion rate of an inch a century, and then extrapolated that some 300 million years were apparently necessary to explain the total amount of erosion that had occurred.

In 1862, Lord Kelvin published his analysis in a paper titled On the Secular Cooling of the Earth. He arrived at a best estimate for the age of the Earth of 100 million years. Essentially, Lord Kelvin stated that if Earth is more than 100 million years old, there would be no volcanic activity (tidal forces would be unsufficiant) and the planet would be totally solid to the core.

The Christian Fundamentalists were in an uproar against Darwin and held up Lord Kelvin’s study to show that Darwin is incorrect. However, the sedimentation record of the Grand Canyon implies that Earth is at least 2 billion years old. Other studies concluded that Earth is much younger than 1 billion years old. There was much acrimony in the scientific world. It came to the point that Lord Kelvin stated that if one can discover an unknown - at that time - source of energy then he will acknowledge that his models were wrong.

Then in 1896, Henri Becquerel accidentally discovered radioactivity.

I learn the above story by reading 20 years ago a science book published before WW2. Today, all science textbooks start the radioactivity story with Becquerel.

You can read more about the radioactivity story at www.lewrockwell.com/orig9/deming4.1.1.html


18 posted on 07/17/2011 5:06:33 PM PDT by barracuda1412
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However, the sedimentation record of the Grand Canyon implies that Earth is at least 2 billion years old.

Depends on who is doing the implying and how/why they interpreted facts and also whether they interpreted their "facts" based upon other mere implications thought to be facts but based upon other implications often based upon outdated science.

19 posted on 07/17/2011 5:21:25 PM PDT by Bellflower (Isa 32:5 The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said [to be] bountiful.))
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To: Bellflower

I know you are trying to be witty but you have failed miserably. At least 3 Nobel prizes (chemistry, physics, medicine) were award for work on sedimentation. The relevant researcher is The Svedberg, 1926 Chemistry Nobel prize.

However, The did not do the Grand Canyon work but his predecessors in the field of sedimentation.


20 posted on 07/17/2011 5:33:54 PM PDT by barracuda1412
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