Engineering

Ok so, Orbital Marine Power is actually pretty interesting. Harness tidal energy generated by large objects orbiting the earth I.e. the moon, and convert it into energy. Also happens to look fantastically sci-fi though, kudos

Ok so, Orbital Marine Power is actually pretty interesting. Harness tidal energy generated by large objects orbiting the earth I.e. the moon, and convert it into energy. Also happens to look fantastically sci-fi though, kudos 

https://www.orbitalmarine.com/technology/

creating and destroying; built flying cars & autonomous vehicles, now building /faust, more here: /july, web: july.rocks

When I was a kid, I had the idea of drawing energy from the tides and thought I might have cleverly invented a perpetual motion machine, because hey, free energy forever.

But of course, the downside is that the device pulls energy from the Earth-Moon coupling, contributing ever so negligibly to the Moon pulling away from the Earth (right now, by about one inch per year).

That’s how I learned there’s not free lunch and the laws of thermodynamics are as inescapable as death, taxes, and @july casting interesting content