POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Moon computer : Re: Moon computer Server Time
5 Jul 2024 06:48:24 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Moon computer  
From: clipka
Date: 17 Feb 2016 18:16:34
Message: <56c4ff52$1@news.povray.org>
Am 17.02.2016 um 09:46 schrieb Le_Forgeron:

> If you could harvest the momentum between moon and earth (moon is
> getting further away from earth as time goes on, meaning "moon is
> acquiring more orbital speed"... hence energy), you could have some
> energy for your nanobots and make the moon stays longer with the earth.
> 
> We all need a bigger moon... with more influence on the sea levels.

Actually, harvesting that "energy" would mean to only speed up that process.

You can never harvest energy /per se/ -- all you can harvest is
/differences/ in energy potentials.

One of those friggin' laws of thermodynamics.


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