If a few nukes hit Salt Lake City, would it vaporize the lake?

[OldLarry]

What if they were dropped from a plane on a treadmill?

[Todds]

The more important question is would the survivors get an an amazing powder day from all the vaporized water?

[Viva]

The more important question is would the survivors get an an amazing powder day from all the vaporized water?

They'd better be using lead-jacketed skis.

[Mofro261]

With any hope a couple nukes would clear up the fucking inversion air down there. SLC might as well be the Momo equivalent of Beijing.

[DJSapp]

They'd better be using lead-jacketed skis.

Doesn't TNF make a lead lined jacket for alaskan training purposes?

[jma233]

Nice job on the calculations. My only contribution is that a lot of thermal energy will be 'wasted' when the vaporization occurs underwater (at greater than 1 ATM).

[ilikecandy]

Salt Lake has 5.4 trillion gallons; a gallon weights 8#. That's 43.2 trillion pounds.

It takes 1000BTU to vaporize 1 # of water. So, it would take 432,000,000,000,000,000 BTU to vaporize it all (assuming the salt content has no bearing, and that the energy could hit all of the lake at the same time, both dubious assumptions.)

So how many BTUs are in an atomic blast?

you neglected the sensible heat to get it up to boiling point

[Hugh Conway]

you neglected the sensible heat to get it up to boiling point

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