A Princeton-led team has built a tabletop device that generates voltage directly from Earth’s rotation through its magnetic field. While the power output is orders of magnitude too small for practical electronics, the breakthrough suggests Earth’s spin could someday provide constant, fuel-free energy if the effect scales up. The team is now calling for independent labs to reproduce the results.
This was my first thought lol. I hope they also have the other direction figured out, i.e. expend energy to speed the rotation up. Otherwise please do not send this to prod, we have enough problems already
Well, is angular momentum an ancient remnant of some prior activity or is there ongoing physics that keep its momentum? Because if there’s ongoing physics, logic would have me believe that the momentum would return simply by stopping our process of stealing it.