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From: doug@terak.UUCP (Doug Pardee)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: renewable energy
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Date: Mon, 1-Apr-85 15:07:54 EST
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> There is only ONE renewable energy resource on this planet:  Solar Energy.

Not quite.  I'll grant that direct solar and indirect solar (oceanic
temperature differences, nuclear fusion, wind, etc.) are the largest
energy sources in which the entropy is beyond our control.  But there
are others.  One which comes to mind is gravitational, available
indirectly in tides.  Another is from the rotation of the earth.  Some
of the wind power could be considered indirect rotational energy.
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Doug Pardee -- Terak Corp. -- !{hao,ihnp4,decvax}!noao!terak!doug