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Let me nitpick: The headline alone is right: Tidal energy cannot be renewed. But that is true for all renewables like wind and solar, because "renewable" is a m
by rwoerz 3y ago
Let me nitpick: The headline alone is right: Tidal energy cannot be renewed. But that is true for all renewables like wind and solar, because "renewable" is a misnomer. Real renewal would violate thermodynamic's 2nd law.
What the author actually seems to doubt is the ABUNDANCE of tidal energy (but supports that with questionable assumptions (cf. other comments here))
- ricardobeat 3y agoEven then conflating them makes no sense. Solar and wind power are both coming from an external source, the sun, which we might as well consider infinite; whereas tidal energy is not. It can be depleted.