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		peterashford 9 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Can Earth's rotation generate power? Physicists di... Wind power is mostly due to solar energy. Earth's rotation contributes a very small amount and even that smaller effect is more located in the upper atmosphere where we don't collect wind power versus solar caused pressure gradients

rokkamokka 9 months ago [–]

While true, if the earth stopped rotating the sun would also stop being "evenly" distributed around the globe, which would affect wind patterns a lot

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