Physics is all about dimensional analysis, which is the first concept freshman physics students encounter.
Temperature and Energy are not the same dimension, nor are they related mathematically in the way you described.
The mathematics of thermodynamics is outside the skill set of most people and virtually all politicians. So in this venue we are not able to explain what is wrong with what Gore said or what you said in your post.
“Energy Output” is not a useful term. The dimension of “power” is probably apropos for what you are trying to say.
Energy (a dimension) is defined as the integration of the power (a dimension) function over a time (a dimension) interval.
Example:
Your electric company provides power in terms of watts. Every appliance you use is rated for watts.
But your electric bill is not in watts. In your electric bill you are charged in the dimension of Energy (watts multiplied by time) namely kilowatt-hours, or thousands of watts multiplied by the number of hours in the interval between the times the meter was read.
The international scientific (SI) unit for energy is the Joule. Other defined units are the calorie and BTU. As another example the energy of a high energy particle, such as an X-ray is the electron-Volt.
I wish. It’s a typo. :smack: (interrupted by kids coming home from school while deciding between ‘Ahmedinejad is not President of’ v. ‘Ahmedinejad is President of…’)(Can I get extra-credit bonus points for ‘Ahmedinejad’?)
In my defense, I have never run, nor do I plan to run, for political office!! LOL
A trillion in the American English language is 1,000,000,000,000, and has 12 zeroes (zeros.)
A trillion is a million million: 1,000,000 X 1,000,000
A trillion is a thousand billion: 1,000 X 1,000,000,000
A billion is 1,000,000,000 and has 9 zeroes.
A billion is a thousand million: 1,000 X 1,000,000
A million is a thousand thousand:. 1,000 X 1,000 or 1,000,000 and has 6 zeroes.
Supposedly the British term for the American meaning of a “billion” is a “thousand million” or so I have been told.
You want to try to parse the difference between claiming to be an expert, and claiming to be someone “who is very familiar with what the Wisconsin dairy industry is all about”, go ahead, but don’t expect to be taken seriously.
I understand your point - IOKIADDI. I just think it is as stupid as it usually is.
Actually they were - lambasting her as a way to distract from Obama’s lack of foreign policy experience. And military experience. And leadership experience. And energy policy experience. And business experience.
Every fucking time somebody mentioned any of these on the SDMB, we would get some troll or other trotting some shit out about Palin.
It automatically marks me as someone the liberal assholes will call names, certainly, but that hardly matters.
The difference it makes is that his claimed knowledge of global warming and geophysics is invalidated by such an ignorant comment.
This does not demonstrate anything about Palin.
It does demonstrate how the media portray conservatives and liberals. The media ridicule of conservatives is pervasive and often malevolent (remember Dan Rather?)
This is complete horseshit. I caught my professor saying things that were demonstrably absurd, but I wouldn’t evaluate the rest of his chemistry by those statements.
It says more about Paleface desperation at developing a false equivalence. You can indeed see Russia from a remote part of Alaska, but it has nothing to do with foreign policy qualifications. Palin is an idiot and has never said anything that is scientifically interesting.
You are right about Dan Rather. It’s only OK when FOX News does it.
You left out the argument to, “It does demonstrate how the media portray conservatives and liberals. The media ridicule of conservatives is pervasive and often malevolent.”
FWIW, Gore has a pretty clear record of random bullshit.
He made Clinton look like George Washington, Ben Franklin, Albert Einstein, Ghandi, Abraham Lincoln, Dwight Eisenhower and Mark Twain all rolled into one.