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Re:World Energy Hits a Turning Point: Solar That's Cheaper T... by marvin on Friday December 16, 2016 @02:48AM (#13191759)
If that was easy and cheap to do, our problem wouldn't be climate change due to greenhouse gases - it would be climate change due to the earth rotating slower since we'd been using it as an energy source for 200 years!
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Re:World Energy Hits a Turning Point: Solar That's Cheaper T... by adrianN on Friday December 16, 2016 @03:00AM (#13191788)
You'd speed it back up in times of energy surplus. It's a giant flywheel.
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Re:World Energy Hits a Turning Point: Solar That's Cheaper T... by WalterBright on Friday December 16, 2016 @03:39AM (#13191911)
Rotational energy is already harvested using tidal power and wind power.
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Re:World Energy Hits a Turning Point: Solar That's Cheaper T... by dghughes on Friday December 16, 2016 @09:54AM (#13193601)
There are band type "windmills" it's a taught band with magnets on each end when it flaps it moves the magnets to generate power.
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