Truth Wind Energy

Can Earth’s Spin Be Changed by #Wind? Earth’s #atmosphere is changing all the time. #Winds and #pressure#patterns change over days, weeks, and years. Not only do those changes affect the #weather, they affect the rotation of the #Earth as well, causing #changes to the length of days. #Earth is #spinning like a skater spins on the ice.

When a skater #moves his arms out, mass is moved far from the# axis of #rotation, the skater’s body and the skater spins more #slowly. The #spinningearth works in the same way! When #atmospheric pressure is high at the #equator, mass is moved far away from Earth’s axis of #rotation, and the #planet spins more #slowly.

There are other ways the atmosphere can affect #Earthrotation too. For instance, strong winds in the atmosphere, cause Earth to slow its #spin. Because the total #amount of movement must stay they same. If the atmosphere #speeds up, then the solid Earth must slow down. So now #imagine what will happen to the Earth, now that there are enough #windturbines in the world, to affect wind conditions #worldwide Affects in a way that #motherearth did not intend. #Tanis#JacobTanis