HPT Heat Series Part 3 * Heat in the Atmosphere & Oceans: [Check back on April 19th for more embedded videos & graphics.] Enyart continues his interview Bryan Nickel, a mechanical engineer who's spent 18 years in the missile division of a U.S. aerospace firm, about the criticism that Dr. Walt Brown's Hydroplate Theory would bring catastrophic heat to the Earth's surface during the global flood. The guys address four critics, anti-creationists Glen Kuban and Tony Reed, and fellow young-earthers Danny Faulkner and John Baumgardner, listing their combined twenty arguments claiming the HPT would boil the oceans, cook the atmosphere, and melt the crust. Then Bryan and Bob list a dozen factors they will employ over the next few programs to evaluate the heat transfer of the HPT including that expanding gas cools rapidly, the behavior of directed energy, the significance of boundary conditions, the role and behavior of supercritical water, and the nearly heat-neutral fusion of heavy elements. Walt's creationist critics support a competing flood model called Catastrophic Plate Tectonics which has its own heat problem with CPT advocates admitting that accelerated nuclear decay would melt the crust and appealing to a miracle as a solution for removing that heat. HPT, in contrast, observes physical processes that mitigate heat. Dr. Brown, incidentally, received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Heat Transfer division in their engineering department while working in MIT's heat transfer lab. * Twenty Specific Criticisms: The critic's name links to his criticism: Glen Kuban: From the anti-creationist website called paleo.cc, argues that: 1. The release of pressurized water in the eruption of the fountains would deposit tremendous heat energy on the surface of the earth. 2. The temperature of the flood waters coming up from below, being supercritical as Walt Brown indicates, were at least 1300oF. 3. The HPT suggests that half of today's ocean waters were once below the crust so that mixture of hot SCW with the surface waters would virtually boil the oceans. 4. The massive friction from the sliding, compressing, and thickening continents would produce tremendous heat. 5. The massive lava fields and other volcanic activity occurring within the short young-earth timeframe. 6. Much of the sub-crustal water that jettisoned into the atmosphere fell back to earth as scalding rain. 7. Dramatically accelerated nuclear decay would produce lethal heat (and radiation levels). Tony Reed, from his YouTube channel Creationism taught me real science argues that: 8. The Supercritical water would have transferred its heat to the atmosphere and scald the planet in part because although air doesn't conduct heat well, “steam conducts heat very well”. 9. A temperature differential of a few degrees produces wind and the HPT has a 1,000-degree differential so that would easily generate powerful winds that would spread the heat throughout the atmosphere. 10. The depressurizing water and the superheated steam and air would become a blast wave. 11. Water and crustal debris ejected to the upper atmosphere will not be able to cool down from the main two methods of heat transfer, conduction and convection, but only from radiation which is less effective. 12. After the first 40 days when the fountains of the great deep are no longer launching debris into space nor even into the atmosphere, but the flood level continues to rise for another 110 days so all that superheated water is going directly into the surface waters. Danny Faulkner, astronomer at Ken Ham's Answers in Genesis, in a CRSQ paper, argues that: 13. A back-of-the-envelope calculation shows that life couldn't survive the overheating of the troposphere that would occur even if only a tiny fraction of the HPT's kinetic energy transfers from the jets to the atmosphere. 14. Water moving at the speeds Walt Brown indicates for the fountains of the great deep [escape velocity is a minim