Brett Lee is lighting up my TV screen, the spectators and Tony Greig with his fiery deliveries against England and his EEN (Emotional Energy Neutron) rating must be at least 600 or more. The Australian and England teams are pumping out around 10,000 EEN’s but no one is discussing the effect of cricket on global warming nor is it well understood.
On April 28, 1914, George W Crile delivers an amazing address to the New York State Medical Society where he outlines “The Kinetic System” of the human body. He describes its primary design is the transfer of latent energy into motion (35%) (read: play cricket) and into heat (65%) (read: emotional energy neutrons). He documents six specific circumstances as examples of outcomes when emotions can be clinically measured and proven to increase body heat that we release into the surrounding atmosphere.
We measure energy in a variety ways – all relative to the original calorie (from the Latin word “calor” meaning heat). One calorie of heat raises the temperature of one gram of water by one degree Celsius. One calorie is equal to 4.187 joules. But, the Calorie count we see on food packaging (capital C) is actually 1,000 calories, enough to heat a litre of water by one degree. That is 4.187Kj (capital K for 4,187 joules). It is Kilowatt-hours that are used to measure global warming and 1.59776 Cal or .3816 Kj equals 1-Kilowatt hour
Physicist Paul Hewitt says that a single peanut contains 10 Cal and that it releases 10,000 calories (41,870 joules of energy) when we burn or eat it. That’s equivalent to 6.2587 kW/hrs of energy and that’s not peanuts. A 55gm Picnic bar has 299 Cal, enough energy to boil one cup of water or to put out 190.718 kW/hrs of energy.
Henryk Belda of the Scottish Green Party argues that everything we do and everything that we produce should be valued and priced according to the number of kW/ hours used, so that its impact on global warming is measured and priced. It is energy cost that is most important.
Three peanuts are equal to one EEN. We calculate an EEN as 8.33% of the energy used in a brisk walk, at 360 Cal per hour. That’s 30 Cal, 125.61 Kj or 18.776 kW/hrs.
On the EEN cricket-modelling tool, eleven components make up one full EEN, on an interactive % basis
fast bowler run up, (9%)
all other bowlers’ run up, (7%)
being clean bowled or out LBW, (11%)
hitting a six, (11%)
hitting a four, ( 5%)
making one or more runs, ( 4%)
being caught or run out, ( 8%)
making an appeal, (15%)
bowling a wide or a bye, ( 5%)
missing the ball altogether or being dropped ( 16%)
bowling a no ball. ( 9%)
Depending on the mix of bowlers and how the game is progressing, a one-day match can easily create 10,170 EEN – especially with lots of missed balls, appeals, clean bowled wickets and sixes. Because we calculate EEN on the emotional energy during the game, just watch how Brett leaps in the air to appeal or grabs his head in disbelief when the ball goes between bat and wicket. While Dennis Lillee and Graham Marsh paired up against Javed Miandad, Oasim Omar and Mudassar Nazar in Adelaide, (9th Dec 1983), I suspect the EEN count was at its highest that day when Geoffrey Lawson took Miandad LBW!
How much is cricket contributing to global warming in kW/hours? Three peanuts equal one EEN and a one-day game will generate 10,170 EEN. It takes 30,509 peanuts to be equivalent to the 572,817 kW/hours that one game of cricket generates. If the cost of producing one kW/hour is 13 cents, it costs $74,466 to manufacture the equivalent EEN heat output of a one-day game of cricket. If, on any given day around the world, 200,000 games of cricket are being played at all levels (school, club, state, international), cricket is generating EEN heat values that would cost $14.9Billion to manufacture in a single day.
Brett Lee positively radiates EEN both on and off the ground. And here’s the rub! Over the past thirty years, we have all been worrying about global warming creating a hole in the ozone layer, making sure our refrigerators get their CFC’s removed before they go to the tip and changing to unleaded petrol. Meantime, your “friends in flannel” pump out EEN’s in a never-ending stream of invisible heat. One thing is for sure – we do not have to worry about our kids getting fat! They just have to start playing cricket!
2 Comments
December 27, 2008 at 9:43 am
Brett Lee lighting up my television screen? If by that you mean I almost set my television on fire because I was so distraught that Brett Lee is still in the test side then maybe that would be true.
January 1, 2009 at 4:44 am
Well, I have to admit I first devised the story in 2005 – and his flame certainly does not burn so brightly now. Give me a suggestion and I will happily rewrite it.