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Population impacts on temperature
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As an example, New York City gets about 4 kWh of solar insolation per square meter per day. At about 1000 square kilometers, the city gets about 4x109 GWh of solar energy per day.
The ...
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Population impacts on temperature
It's hard if not impossible to give a precise value considering you give no details, but for sure the urban heat island is measurable:
Urban areas usually experience the urban heat island (UHI) ...
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Population impacts on temperature
Depending on the metropolitan area you could inadvertently kill 90% of the world population. Assuming you pick well and don't doom civilisation, the way that the physical buildings soak up solar ...
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