[ExI] THE END for nuclear power

Kelly Anderson kellycoinguy at gmail.com
Sun Apr 3 07:29:01 UTC 2011


On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 10:12 AM, Richard Loosemore <rpwl at lightlink.com> wrote:
> Kelly Anderson wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Jeff Davis <jrd1415 at gmail.com> wrote:
> *reflected* back by the wall, it will build up behind it, because it is
> travelling at 50 mph.

Just a dumb question here... but they say that the tsunami waves
travel at mid ocean around 500 MPH. Why do they slow down so much when
they go onto land? I get the bunching up and getting tall part, but
why does it slow down 10x? Does anyone have a handle on that?

-Kelly



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