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Charles Platt (Login cplatt)
Veteran Member
Posted Jul 28, 2009 5:15 PM
It has been explained many times that the difference between a summer high in a temperate zone, and a summer high in Phoenix, is trivial compared with the difference between ambient air temperature and liquid nitrogen (-196 C).
Suppose there is a geologically stable location, free from tornadoes and other natural catastrophes, yet well served with amenities such as liquid nitrogen deliveries, in a temperate zone where the summer high never goes above 75 F (i.e. 24 degrees C). I don't think such a place exists in the USA, but, let's pretend.
The difference in temperature between liquid nitrogen and shade temperature in such a temperate zone would be 196 + 24 = 220 degrees.
The typical daytime high, at the peak of the summer in Phoenix, is around 110 (i.e. 43 degrees C).
Therefore the difference in summer-high temperature between the hypothetical temperate zone and Phoenix is 19 degrees.
19/220 = an increase in temperature differential of about 8.5 percent.
I think you have been nattering on about this for--years, is it?--as if 8.5 percent constitutes grounds for accusing Alcor of making a foolish decision to locate itself in Scottsdale. Clearly, other factors are far more important than summer temperature. |
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