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Can we use the Coriolis effect to generate electricity?

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Let's have a quick look at what the coriolis effect is to understand why its not a good way to generate energy. Imagine the earth rotating with all the air at each latitude traveling at the same speed as the ground. read more

Let's have a quick look at what the coriolis effect is to understand why its not a good way to generate energy. Imagine the earth rotating with all the air at each latitude traveling at the same speed as the ground. That is, there is no wind relative to the surface because the air speed matches the ground speed. read more

actually, thinking of wind power – for a while, I thought that retrieving energy from the wind would slow the wind down until eventually there wasn’t any, but of course that was before I understood that a lot of the wind is actually caused by the Coriolis effect. so, in effect, even the wind power generators have the slowing of the earth as a side-effect (although in a more second-hand manner). read more

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