You will also want to pay attention to
the Joules rating.
Not exact matches
Since 1970, the Earth's heat content has been rising at a
rate of 6 x 1021
Joules per year.
[Response: The relevant phenomena is the heat flux and so it's measured in
Joules, J / m2 or perhaps better, W / m2 to get the
rate of change.
Granted it would take 2500
Joules of energy to convert each ccm of ice; however, there certainly is a much higher precentage of energy coming in than can be accounted for in the melt
rate and is currently attributed to re-radiation.
Now I am the first to admit that 1e22
joules are a heap of
joules and when someone is faced with the fact that the ocean heat content has been rising at a steady
rate of around 1e22
joules / year since 1970, the first reaction is to say «O. M. G.!!
The
rate of evaporation at 21 C is about 88
Joules per sec which if that was averaged over a large enough area would be about 88 Wm - 2 per sec.
Ocean heat flux is a turbulent and complex system [7] which utilizes atmospheric measurement techniques such as eddy covariance to measure the
rate of heat transfer expressed in the unit of
joules or watts per second.
BTW, the ~ 100 Sverdrup ACC can have an annual OH uptake impact on the order of 6 x 10 ^ 22
joules and SSW events on the order of 10 ^ 22
joules, the current
rate of OH uptake is likely not unprecedented.
So forget about your mechanisms, forget about the
joules, forget about the lapse
rates and how they are maintained, and just ANSWER THE FREAKIN» QUESTION:
Willis Eschenbach: «So forget about your mechanisms, forget about the
joules, forget about the lapse
rates and how they are maintained, and just ANSWER THE FREAKIN» QUESTION: Will heat flow in the silver wire forever?»
Since 1970, the Earth's heat content has been rising at a
rate of 6 x 1021
Joules per year.
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Example: Ocean heat is rising at a
rate of 1e22
joules / year!
Over the past decade, the
rate is 8 x 1021
Joules per year, or 2.5 x 1014
Joules per second.
Power — Watts,
Joules / second or ergs / second — the
rate at which energy is produced or consumed in time.
Ocean warming is occuring at around 8 * 1021
joules per year, or at a
rate of around 253 TeraWatts.
The yield of the Hiroshima atomic bomb was 6.3 x 1013
Joules, hence the
rate of global heat accumulation is equivalent to about 4 Hiroshima bomb detonations per second.
Surge protectors are often
rated in the amount of
Joules of energy they can absorb, so you're likely to see this information clearly advertised on the surge protector.
When you're looking at
ratings, a surge protector
rated at 1000 - 2000
Joules is typically good enough for smaller electronics — networking gear, smartphones, printers, and so on.
Published specifications indicate that the miner operates at a peak hash
rate of 504 megahashes per second (MH / s), while consuming 1.6
Joules per Megahash (J / MH).