P5_7 Baked Alaska

Alaska currently has a very cold Arctic and sub-Arctic environment, but due to global warming and a proposed increase of global temperatures of 5.4 ◦C by 2100 AD this is being threatened. We calculated if placing an insulating cube on Alaska in 2100 AD and using a refrigerator to cool it down to its...

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Main Authors: Peacock, Billy, Hopkinson, Alfred Thomas, Weston, Jack, Logan, Matthew, Page, Archie
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: The University of Leicester 2019
Subjects:
Arctic
Global warming
Alaska
Online Access:https://journals.le.ac.uk/ojs1/index.php/pst/article/view/3327
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spelling ftleicesterunojs:oai:ojs1.journals.le.ac.uk:article/3327 2023-05-15T14:49:50+02:00 P5_7 Baked Alaska Peacock, Billy Hopkinson, Alfred Thomas Weston, Jack Logan, Matthew Page, Archie 2019-11-28 application/pdf https://journals.le.ac.uk/ojs1/index.php/pst/article/view/3327 eng eng The University of Leicester https://journals.le.ac.uk/ojs1/index.php/pst/article/view/3327/2982 https://journals.le.ac.uk/ojs1/index.php/pst/article/view/3327 Copyright (c) 2019 Physics Special Topics Physics Special Topics; Vol 18, No 1 (2019) info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2019 ftleicesterunojs 2021-06-18T06:08:32Z Alaska currently has a very cold Arctic and sub-Arctic environment, but due to global warming and a proposed increase of global temperatures of 5.4 ◦C by 2100 AD this is being threatened. We calculated if placing an insulating cube on Alaska in 2100 AD and using a refrigerator to cool it down to its 2019 AD temperatures was a viable solution to keeping Alaska cold. It was worked out it would need 1.1×1015 J of work in order to cool the interior of the cube. It was concluded the environmental damage and increased fossil fuel emissions are too great for this to be a option. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Global warming Alaska University of Leicester Open Journals Arctic
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description Alaska currently has a very cold Arctic and sub-Arctic environment, but due to global warming and a proposed increase of global temperatures of 5.4 ◦C by 2100 AD this is being threatened. We calculated if placing an insulating cube on Alaska in 2100 AD and using a refrigerator to cool it down to its 2019 AD temperatures was a viable solution to keeping Alaska cold. It was worked out it would need 1.1×1015 J of work in order to cool the interior of the cube. It was concluded the environmental damage and increased fossil fuel emissions are too great for this to be a option.
format Article in Journal/Newspaper
author Peacock, Billy
Hopkinson, Alfred Thomas
Weston, Jack
Logan, Matthew
Page, Archie
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Hopkinson, Alfred Thomas
Weston, Jack
Logan, Matthew
Page, Archie
P5_7 Baked Alaska
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publisher The University of Leicester
publishDate 2019
url https://journals.le.ac.uk/ojs1/index.php/pst/article/view/3327
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Global warming
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Global warming
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