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Old May 1st 07, 07:47 PM posted to sci.space.history,rec.org.mensa,sci.physics,uk.sci.astronomy
BradGuth
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Default Earth w/o Magnetosphere, w/o Moon

How much global warming(GW) is our moon good for?

It's supposedly taking the equivalent of 2e20 joules, or roughly the
equal of 7.2e21 KW worth of gravity force(Fg), as representing the
equivalent in centripetal force(Fc) of mutually holding onto our moon,
or vise versa.

How much of that energy is getting transferred into Earth? ( 3.6e21
KW ?)

How about allowing 0.0001% = 3.6e15 KW (that's only 7.04 KW/m2, or
rather 3.322e-3 W/m3 [excluding our atmosphere], or perhaps as little
a 3.25 mw/m3 including the volume of our wet atmosphere)

Gravity is a real measured force, and the associated energy of that
force is clearly going somewhere other than into thin air (sort of
speak). Much of earth's surface and especially of its interior is not
a solid, and such stuff (including our polluted and wet atmosphere) is
affected by and thus moved along by gravity, unavoidably causing
friction. Earth's moon is considerably more than a thousand fold of
greater mass per ratio of it's planet than any other moon within our
solar system, with the exception of those little binary icy planets or
the likes of Oort cloud debris that simply arnt all that robust to
start with, and our moon is certainly close and fast moving enough to
having a significant tidal impact (inside and out) upon our
environment.

moon (IR)radiance w/m2 = ?
Like a mirror that's better at reflecting IR photons (better than
Earth's albedo that's contributing an IR planetshine worth of 266 w/
m2, whereas that naked and physically dark moon unavoidably creating
those secondary/recoil worth of FIR photons is why there's a fairly
substantial IR/FIR influx that's measurably good for having
contributed a little something of extra energy influx to our GW
situation. (too bad we still haven't established a moon L1 science
platform for actively telling us this essential information)

In the past I've asked the question; are we being global warmed to
death by our moon?

In more ways than not, I believe the regular laws of physics and of
the best available science has been telling us the truth, that in fact
we are being warmed to death by our moon that has only been with us
since the last ice age this planet will ever see.

Too bad we're not ever going to get smart enough for relocating that
nasty moon of ours out to Earth's L1.
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Brad Guth