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How much energy would it take to stop Earth's rotation on its axis?

1 pointsby omarfarooqover 1 year ago

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Someoneover 1 year ago
The answer has the sign wrong. It would be a source of energy.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theworldcounts.com&#x2F;challenges&#x2F;climate-change&#x2F;energy&#x2F;global-energy-consumption" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theworldcounts.com&#x2F;challenges&#x2F;climate-change&#x2F;ene...</a> says “The annual global energy consumption is estimated to 580 million terajoules”, so that’s about 6E20 joules.<p>So, there’s enough energy there to power the world for 400 million years.<p>(<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Orders_of_magnitude_(energy)" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Orders_of_magnitude_(energy)</a> has 5×10^20 J, respectively 2.1×10^29 J, agreeing with that)<p>Now, about extracting it…