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97 square kilometers? 97 kilometer radius? tsk tsk Wikipedia…

• jackweirdy 12y ago
  What's wrong with the second one?
  • deleted 12y ago
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• knowtheory 12y ago
  Yeah, i'm not even sure that specifying just one unit is even sufficient for me to understand what they mean. Presumably plume size is determined by a variety of factors, not just fuel?
• FatalLogic 12y ago
  I assume it means 97 square kilometers, because covering a circle of 97 km radius in 15 minutes would require a 776 km/hour wind :) But it is written very unclearly, and it's not clear what is wikipedia's source, sadly. It just seemed plausible that there could be plenty of smoke coverage for the scenario under discussion
• cdwhite 12y ago
  So I read this as "within 15 minutes, land up to 60 miles downwind of the generator is obscured."
  • endianswap 12y ago
    Wouldn't that require 240mph winds, though?
    • cdwhite 12y ago
      ... yeah. Oops. Guess that reading's out.
• HNJohnC 12y ago
  Are you really 'tsk'-ing at wikipedia? You know it's not guaranteed to be accurate on any topic at all don't you?
  • nkozyra 12y ago
    Is anything guaranteed to be accurate on any topic?
• sitkack 12y ago
  hit the edit button
  • colanderman 12y ago
    Hard to edit when I don't know what it's supposed to say.