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Can you harvest energy from this somehow?

• lost_tourist 3y ago
  No
  • lll-o-lll 3y ago
    Aww
  • permo-w 3y ago
    why? too weak?
    • tetris11 3y ago
      Yes. It would be like trying to harvest energy from vibrating sound waves, whilst using a sensitive microphone that requires orders of energy more to function. With sound waves you could use a really super thin piece of metal that vibrates to sound itself, in which you could harvest sound energy. But gravitational waves? I don't know how easy that would be. Maybe a super long and rigid cable, positioned thousands of kilometers apart that bends ever so slightly to changes in their anchors.... though I'm sure any energy harvested from that would have gravitational waves as their least contributing factor.
• dredmorbius 3y ago
  If you were very close to the origins, perhaps. Though in that event, I suspect you might be having other priorities.
• tobinfricke 3y ago
  Not enough to be useful. In the case of these extremely low-frequency waves, also not enough to be measurable.