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Tidal Energy Is Not Renewable (cs.stanford.edu)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

if we were to extract the rotational energy just to supply 1% of the world's energy consumption, the rotation of the Earth would lock to the Moon in about 1000 years. As a consequence, one side of the Earth would be exposed to the Sun for a much longer period than it is today.

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