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11/16/2012 7:11:25 AM
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If you step in this puddle, electrocution will befall you.
I have a math and/or physics question for you Flood that i am curious about. We all know that if a current is put into a source of water, electricity will course through it and if you touch that water, the current will jump, and flow through you. More often than not this can kill, but in this situation lets say no person or thing will be harmed.
If we were going to completely seperate an ocean, for this scenario lets say the Atlantic, how much electricity in volts would be needed to light up the entire body of water?
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] AgileNaruto001 [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Scoopicus More energy than any force on Earth can produce, I'm sure.[/quote] What if...we converted the power of every nuke on earth into electricity and fired it in, would that be enough perhaps?[/quote] 4.18E15 joules per megaton bomb (roughly what we have today) ~5 billion joules per lightning bolt (on average) = 836,800 lightning strikes per atomic bomb = 1,195 1-megaton atomic bombs converted entirely into electrical energy are required to distribute a charge across the surface of an ocean =11,950 100-kiloton bombs An [i]Ohio[/i]-Class Ballistic Missile Submarine can hold 24 Trident missiles with 8 100-kiloton nuclear warheads = 192 * .1 megatons = 19.2 megatons per submarine This means you'd need roughly 100 [i]Ohio[/i]-Class subs to accomplish this task...There are currently 18 in service. Including other countries, we have: 18(192) + 4(6) + 1(6) + 5(48) + 4(16) + 6(20) + 4(16) = 3,974 100-kiloton warheads That means we're short by almost 2/3. There are still land-based ballistic launch sites, but that's all classified so I'm just going to go by estimated nuclear stockpile records that state there are 19000 nukes in the world. Discarding submarine-based nukes, that's around 15000 nukes. Assuming we used all of our sub nukes and launched 1/2 of our land based nukes and were able to convert all of the energy into electricity and direct it at a spot in the ocean, you would be able to feel the current across the entire surface. And this, ladies and gentlemen, is a good point to go to sleep.
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] AgileNaruto001 [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Scoopicus More energy than any force on Earth can produce, I'm sure.[/quote] What if...we converted the power of every nuke on earth into electricity and fired it in, would that be enough perhaps?[/quote] I don't think electricity works like that...
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Many volts.
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Scoopicus More energy than any force on Earth can produce, I'm sure.[/quote] What if...we converted the power of every nuke on earth into electricity and fired it in, would that be enough perhaps?
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About tree fiddy.
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More energy than any force on Earth can produce, I'm sure.
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] IonicPaul [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] AgileNaruto001 [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] IonicPaul Lots.[/quote] ...I think i'll try reposting this tomorrow.[/quote] I will find this thread if you make it again, mark my words.[/quote] Okay, i will tomorrow again at around 2 pm.
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I don't know, but I think I know a away you can figure it out. If the data is there, take the amount of water in the atlantic in cubic feet. Find out how many volts it takes to electrocute 1 cubic foot of water. Multiply. Bingo
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] theHurtfulTurkey You'd need roughly a billion bolts of lightning striking the surface of the water simultaneously to create a noticeable charge across the surface of an ocean...to feel it all the way to the lowest depths would be in the quadrillions I'm assuming. [/quote] That was a pretty awesome image in my mind, thanks for the reply.
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] AgileNaruto001 [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] IonicPaul Lots.[/quote] ...I think i'll try reposting this tomorrow.[/quote] I will find this thread if you make it again, mark my words.
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] AgileNaruto001 [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] IonicPaul Lots.[/quote] ...I think i'll try reposting this tomorrow.[/quote]But Ionic Paul is right.
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You'd need roughly a billion bolts of lightning striking the surface of the water simultaneously to create a noticeable charge across the surface of an ocean...to feel it all the way to the lowest depths would be in the quadrillions I'm assuming. [Edited on 11.15.2012 11:18 PM PST]
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threeve.
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] IonicPaul Lots.[/quote] ...I think i'll try reposting this tomorrow.
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Lots.
