(December 10, 2023 at 6:44 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(December 10, 2023 at 6:31 am)Anomalocaris Wrote: Potential energy released is proportional to drop height and the mass dropped. 1000m is about 20 times as high as Niagara. Mercury is 13.5 times more dense than water. If the same volume of mercury flow over your 1000m fall as water flowing over the 50m Niagara, The energy released would be 20 X 13.5 =270 times as great.
So a 1000 m mercury fall flowing at the same volumetric flowrate as Niagara will release as much energy every minute as Niagara Falls would releases every 4 and half hours.
That’s the energy of a hiroshima bomb about every minute.
Interesting. What if it was chocolate custard?
Boru
What if it were neutronium, and dropped from the height of the edge of the atmophere?
