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Posted By: SteamyTeaEarth average is 60 mW/m^2As little as that? somewhere I have a map showing enormous differences even leaving aside hotspots like Iceland. Old rock masses like most of Africa v low; ocean beds v much higher; mixed geology like western Europe in between.
Posted By: SteamyTeaa lot of heat pump energy comes via water that has run off the surface and soaked into the groundThat only applies during the summer solar-replenishment phase; will actually be a ground-cooling mechanism in winter. In any case, does not widen the catchment area of solar collection.
Posted By: tonyA heat pump uses solar energy, heat from the sun stored in the air, water or in the ground. They should not be described as geothermal.
Posted By: fostertomThat only applies during the summer solar-replenishment phase; will actually be a ground-cooling mechanism in winter. In any case, does not widen the catchment area of solar collection.
), after a few phase changes it falls as either rain, hail or snow. All ways it is energy transfer from the tropics to the higher latitudes, we would be, at 50-60N a lot colder without it. Convert from the Celsius to the Kelvin scale to get a true measure of it.
Posted By: SteamyTeaThere is solar gain in other times/ways/places as well.But not nett positive at night vs day, winter vs summer, temperate zones vs tropics. For UK, definitely nett negative, winter time. Whatever is gained winter daytime is more than lost by radiation to night sky.
Posted By: SteamyTeaAll ways it is energy transfer from the tropics to the higher latitudesTrue, but only on a summer + winter nett basis. In winter alone, precipitation is cooling the ground - mostly falling @ well below the 10C av 2-3m deep u/ground temp.
Posted By: fostertomprecipitation is cooling the ground
Posted By: bot de paille
presumably badgers dig their burrows below the frost line?
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