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The same thing has occurred to me about wind. I don't know the numbers, of course, but it seems like there is a scale at which the wind no longer has energy it
by menacingly 10y ago
The same thing has occurred to me about wind. I don't know the numbers, of course, but it seems like there is a scale at which the wind no longer has energy it needs to do windy stuff
- maxerickson 10y agoJust for scale estimation, a hurricane is much larger than human electric utilization. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/earth/hurricane-power.html http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/earth/hurricane-power.html What it amounts to is that the amount of solar energy reaching the Earth is just massive.