You make an excellent point Nigel. Even an artillery shell that has its apparent path diverted by the coriolis effect is not given extra energy from the earth, but instead travels in a free path. The earth rotates out from beneath the original aim point. A similar process must be happening to the air flowing due to wind.
Dave -----Original Message----- From: Nigel Dyer <[email protected]> To: vortex-l <[email protected]> Sent: Sun, Feb 9, 2014 10:12 am Subject: Re: [Vo]:: RAR gravity engine And the reply is that you cant change the total angular momentum of the system without reference to something external to said system (e.g. the moon) so a windmill (or an RAR engine) working within the system can take angular momentum from the earth (e.g. by spinning), but it will give it back when it stops, and the earth will be spinning at the same rate and will not have lost any angular momentum, so we wont have taken any energy from it. If the RAR system is getting energy from the rotation of the earth it is doing something with the conservation of angular momentum that current physics cannot explain, and I would not expect that to come from a system consisting of 50 tons of ironmongery. Nigel On 09/02/2014 13:33, Nigel Dyer wrote: The trade winds are driven primarily from the convection currents that take their energy from solar heating. The corriolis force means that the convection currents do not just go in a north-south direction but swing to the east or west. Given all this, at least some of the energy that drives a windmill sitting in the trade wind comes from solar energy. I suspect that trying to work out what proportion (if at all) comes from the spin of the earth is an interesting maths/physics/engineering question. I shall pass it to my son to look at. Nigel On 09/02/2014 06:41, Bob Cook wrote: A better scheme to extract energy from the Coriolis force is the spinning earth creates is to erect a windmill or your sailboat in the trade winds which are caused by this effect. Bob
