Comments by "sdrc92126" (@sdrc92126) on "Unsettled: Climate and Science | Dr. Steven Koonin | EP 323" video.

  1. Sustainable Energy with the Hot Air by David MacKay, Ph.D. physics, is the best book on energy for the common person. It should be required reading for anyone interested in these subjects. It's full of math, but only at a 5th grade level, and the tradeoffs.
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  2. Listing countries by energy consumption per_capita, the US is #11. It's also the third largest country in both size and population.Canada is #9 in percapita energy use and #2 in size. Data from wikipedia
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  3. I get .... Gallon of gas ~121MJ. Gas pumps 13 gal/minute. 121MJ/(60/13)seconds, 26MJ/s = 26MW (there is no watts/second).
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  4.  @johanjansson2723  same order of magnitude. There is all kinds of detail that you can go into with different efficiencies. 1J potental energy is not the same the same as 1J realized. The main reason I commented was MW/s popped out atme.
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  5.  @pinuuturner7777  True, but they sourced their numbers to the World Bank . These are just hard numbers, not opinions. It's always been accurate when I've checked before and was too lazy to check this time which is why I left an attribution.
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  6.  @johanjansson2723  I agree. I mostly just wanted to check the numbers myself ;)
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  7. The CO2 level in nuclear submarines and the ISS where human optimal performace is critical, is kept at 5000ppm.
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