Re: population growth & physics ed

["Michael N. Monce" <mnmon@conncoll.edu>]

On Thu, 18 Jul 1996, David Dockstader wrote:

> Mike
> I think you have ignored removal of the heat and just assumed it collected
> in the atmosphere.  The heat produced by are cars is really trivial compared
> to solar radiation.  I think that the amount of solar energy that falls on
> the earth in a single day is roughly equal to the energy stored in all the
> fossil fuels of the world.


	Of course, silly me.  The atmosphere does convect doesn't it.  
Compared to solar radiation the number I got was small, but was none the 
less impressive; a whole lot of joules being used by the internal 
combustion engine.  Thanks.


					Mike