‘We cannot solve the problem of intermittent energy supply by adding more intermittent energy production.’
Thank you Tim!!!! This really seems too hard for some people to grasp.
Chris Miller
Point of pedantry – the Richter scale is, indeed, logarithmic to base 10, but is based on wave amplitude. As a result the *energy* involved in an earthquake goes up by (roughly) a factor of 30 when the magnitude increases by 1, not by a factor of 10. So a magnitude 3 earthquake is ~1,000 times more energetic than a mag 1, not 100 times.
‘We cannot solve the problem of intermittent energy supply by adding more intermittent energy production.’
Thank you Tim!!!! This really seems too hard for some people to grasp.
Point of pedantry – the Richter scale is, indeed, logarithmic to base 10, but is based on wave amplitude. As a result the *energy* involved in an earthquake goes up by (roughly) a factor of 30 when the magnitude increases by 1, not by a factor of 10. So a magnitude 3 earthquake is ~1,000 times more energetic than a mag 1, not 100 times.