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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.

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[–] bss03@infosec.pub 2 points 21 hours ago

We'd know our impact, but we might still keep unsustainably stealing angular momentum, for a variety of reasons.

Similar to we know we need to stop extracting fossil fuels, but we do it anyway.