Energy at the earth's core?
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Energy at the earth's core?
Can someone help me find out how much energy is produced at the earth's core (joules per second)?
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CaptainChewbacca
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Re: Energy at the earth's core?
Well, what kind of energy? There's the heat, there's the kinetic energy of rotation, and there's the magnetic field generated by the rotation.OmegaGuy wrote:Can someone help me find out how much energy is produced at the earth's core (joules per second)?
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Just from googling 'geothermal energy total':
One wrote:The total geothermal resource is vast. An estimated 100PWh (1 x 1017 W) of heat energy is brought to the earth’s surface each year (World Energy Council 1994).
Apparently 70e6 quads is 7.4e25 J.Two wrote:Current geothermal use is only a fraction of the total potential of geothermal energy. U.S. geothermal resources alone are estimated at 70,000,000 quads21, equivalent to 750,000-years of total primary energy supply (TPES) for the entire nation at current rates of consumption.The geothermal energy potential in the uppermost 6 miles of the Earth’s crust amounts to 50,000 times the energy of all known oil and gas resources in the world.22
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