HPT Heat Series Part 4 * And Now, the Crust: Real Science Radio's Bob Enyart interviews Bryan Nickel, a mechanical engineer who's spent 18 years in the missile division of a U.S. aerospace firm, about the criticism that the global flood events described by Dr. Walt Brown's Hydroplate Theory would melt the Earth's crust. In this HPT heat series, the guys have been addressing four critics, Glen Kuban and Tony Reed, and 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. Bryan and Bob are working off a list of a dozen factors used 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 adiabatic (heat-neutral) fusion by Z-pinch of light and heavy elements. * 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 minimum of 7 mps and up to 32 mps to launch the retrograde comets] would produce tremendous turbulence which would slow down at least a portion of the water jet and transfer kinetic energy to the atmosphere. 15. The leading edge [or the top] of the jet of water would transfer momentum to the atmosphere slowing the leading edge producing a a cascading effect slowing the water below it, and so on, causing the jet to spread horizontally. 16. The HPT posits fountains of water moving at Mach 150 such that Bernoulli’s equation indicates a very large pressure difference that will drive air into the je