Re: Heating a City

On Apr 8, 1:24 am, Tim Little <t...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> With current technology, and without enclosing the city,
> we don't have that much energy.  Which assumption do
> you want to break?

Is that really true.  If I have a couple of hundred megawatts and I
just want to heat a few square miles, that should be doable.

Most of the driveway snow melters I've seen are set at 50 watts/square
foot.  And that's an intermittent setting just used to melt snow, so a
continuous heater should use less energy.

50 watts/square foot is 1.3 gigawatts/square mile.