Yet Another Cycling Forum
The Library => Post Of The Day => Topic started by: librarian on 09 November, 2017, 03:06:42 pm
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A serious answer. I can't open this page at the moment: www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/tcfaq/C5c.html
The heat release is equivalent to a 10-megaton nuclear bomb exploding every 20 minutes. According to the 1993 World Almanac, the entire human race used energy at a rate of 1013 watts in 1990, a rate less than 20% of the power of a hurricane.
It's got to be one of those Appropriate Technology things. Build infrastructure that can cope with being pounded by hurricanes, rather than attempt to control them...
Step one: bricks.
USAnia does not seem wholeheartedly to have grasped the story of the Three Little Pigs.