User blog:DMUA/D&D Homebrew (Greyfang): CLOUDS!?

Requested by User:GreyFang82 here

So, we're calculating the volume of covering the world in clouds. We'll assume they're Bicc cumulonimbuses, but, keep in mind this a Lowball, considering said clouds were dense enough to block out the sun, but, we cannot quantify the density, so we'll work with what we have.

So, using the page on VSBW as my guide, we'll see what we'll get.

So, our radius would be half that of the entire surface of the earth, which is 540,000,000 long, giving us 270,000,000 KM for a radius.

For height, I shall assume as a low end, 8 KM, and as a high end, 11 KM.

Now, put those into the formula for the volume of a cylinder and you get 1.83×10^18 KM and 2.52×10^18 KM, or for our purposes, 1.83E27 Meters Cubed and 2.52E27 Meters Cubed.

Now, the density for clouds is 0.0005 kg/m3, so, using that, we get 9.15E23 Kilograms and 1.26E24 Kilograms.

Now, we multiply by the latent heat Vaporization for water (note: Vaporizing is just as hard as condensing), 2264705 J/kg, and we get....

Low End: 2.072205075E30 Joules, 495.268899378585 Exatons, Small Planet level

High End: 2.8535283E30 Joules, 682.009631931166 Exatons, Small Planet level

Honestly did not expect that, but, we still have to divide by 3, since this was the power of 3 different wizards.

Low End: 1.0361025375E30 Joules, 247.634449689292 Exatons, Moon level, I believe +.

High End: 2.8535283E30 Joules, 341.004815965583 Exatons, Definitely Moon level+

I feel like whenever User:Antydeth Comments about a rough estimate for someone's calc request, he upgrades it to be an entire letter grade higher subconsciously via Upgrade Manipulation, kek.

Though legit I honestly didn't expect this, wew.