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jagger27 18 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Can Earth's rotation generate power? Physicists di...

Earth's magnetic field isn't static, though.

mr_mitm 18 days ago [–]

Negligibly so. The Sun delivers more energy to Earth in about 5 seconds than the magnetic field loses in 1,000 years.

timewizard 18 days ago | [–]

The magnetic field is coherent. The energy from the Sun is not.

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