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OK the Japanese quake was rocks moving along a 300km section of fault (or thereabouts).
If you could somehow know that, say, a 1% length of that was key to triggering the fault (God alone knows how) and that you needed to target an area 100m all round the 1km length.
That's a cylinder of rock 200m diameter and 3000m long. A volume of 94 million cubic meters. Call it a million.
You can work out just how much energy it would take to raise that volume of rock by just one degree K.
Originally posted by roadtoad
Since your, and other atheists, belief in anything 'below the skin, as the Behavior scientists call it, is 'hooey',
I guess there's only one legitimate reply,
'There is more in heaven and earth than is found in your philosophies, Horatio.'
Originally posted by ErtaiNaGia
reply to post by DairyChicken
OK the Japanese quake was rocks moving along a 300km section of fault (or thereabouts).
If you could somehow know that, say, a 1% length of that was key to triggering the fault (God alone knows how) and that you needed to target an area 100m all round the 1km length.
That's a cylinder of rock 200m diameter and 3000m long. A volume of 94 million cubic meters. Call it a million.
You can work out just how much energy it would take to raise that volume of rock by just one degree K.
A: You wouldn't need to heat that high a volume of rock... you are setting up resonant waves, not heating the entire tectonic plate.
The purpose of my theory is to set up mechanical, compression waves, and as such, the amount of rock that you would have to deal with is *MUCH* smaller than your estimates.
So, we are dealing with a volume of rock much smaller than your original estimates, lets say, 100m wide, by 100m deep.
That's a million cubic meters. (smaller than your estimate of 93 million cubic meters, but then again, it could be smaller than that)
Since the tectonic plates are mostly silicon oxide, I will be using Fused silica as the template for heat capacity (Fused silica has a larger heat capacity than silicon dioxide rock, so this is an overestimation)
The heat capacity of Silica is 0.703 Joules per Gram per Degree Kelvin.
That means it takes 0.703 joules of energy to raise the temperature of one gram by one degree kelvin (Celsius)
Fused silica is 2.2 grams per cubic centimeter, meaning that there are 2,200,000 grams per cubic meter.
So, that brings us to a figure of 1,546,600 joules per m^3 per degree Kelvin of fused silica.
(One point Five mega-joules for one degree, roughly)
Now, for a amount of rock that is roughly 1,000,000 cubic meters, that gives us a figure of:
1,546,600,000,000 joules.
OR
1.546 TerraJoules.
Or about 1.5 terrawatts.
Now, that is quite a bit, (the figures for your estimate were about 143 terrawatts, btw)
But honestly, I don't think that this amount of energy is even necessary... considering that what you are trying to do is set up mechanical shock waves, you would probably go with a much smaller volume, and heat it Rapidly, to induce thermal expansion, setting up the compression waves.
In this manner, it would probably be better off to heat just a small cylinder (maybe 10 or so meters wide, by a few hundred meters deep) right AT the fault line.
So, something that small would only take about 7-8 Gigawatts.
Originally posted by roadtoad
And, as long as we're at it. A top earthquake predictor is predicting an earthquake on the american west coast on march 19th, or thereabouts.
Well, you might try cranking your neck up and watching the sky on that day, you might actually see some of the scalar clouds you claim don't exist.