Eventually we will be able to solve this problem by servoing the rotation and orbit of the earth to our atomic clocks. :)
Eventually we will be able to solve this problem by servoing the rotation and orbit of the earth to our atomic clocks. :)
-- Guy Macon
Yeah, and we'll cure "global warming" and solve inflation and end all wars, and cure every disease there is. ;-)
But probably not in my lifetime. )-;
Cheers! Rich
I suppose we'll have so much excess capacity in our tidal power generation plants, that we can switch between equatorial and polar plants to affect the spin. :-)
Actually, given that energy lost due to viscosity in tidal flows is coming from the earth-moon orbital system, I predict a future world (far future) where the new "impending catastrophe" is geological disruption (vulcanism) because our extraction of tidal power has decayed the moon's orbit to half what it is now. Hmmm, it's even possible to calculate how many joules need to be extracted for that!
Not global warming, but global cracking :-). Or is that a crackpot theory? :-)
Clifford Heath.
My understanding is that the power comes from slowing the Earth's rotation. The angular momentum is transferred to the Moon, which therefore rises to higher orbits. As the Moon's apparent diameter shrinks, soon there will be no more total eclipses... Save the eclipses! Help the tides flow!
-- Niklas Holsti Tidorum Ltd niklas holsti tidorum fi . @ .
Niklas Holsti escribió:
If you save the _eclipses_, the other _t_raditional _ides_ will vanish and cease to flow...
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