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How does the excess GPE of a mountain cause its base to melt?
Weisskopf suggested that the Gravitational Potential Energy (GPE) of a vertical column of mountain rock of mass $m$ must be less than the latent heat of fusion $L_f$ of the rock, i.e. $$mgh<η L_fm ...
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If we harvest energy generated by Coriolis Effect of the earth, will the earth slow down?
Coriolis Effect causes strong winds in the upper atmosphere, and it's purely due to differences in the linear velocity of Earth's rotation across latitudes.
Now the Earth is spinning with the energy ...
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