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Comprehensive_Tap131 OP t1_iugooq8 wrote

Reply to comment by Em_Adespoton in ELI5: I was looking into gravity and energy and discovered why you can't harness energy from gravity. Carry bowling ball up a hill, let it fall from a cliff, the energy doesn't come from gravity, but from you carrying it up the hill, potential energy? I then pictured it as charging aKamehameha? ELI5 by Comprehensive_Tap131

To take advantage of gravity for energy you need to go from am area of high gravitational potential to lower gravitational potential. Do the highest levels of Earth's atmosphere contain enough potential to take advantage of an area of high gravitational potential moving to an area of lower gravitational potential?

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Em_Adespoton t1_iuhw105 wrote

Yes?

We do it constantly.

Remember, energy isn’t created or destroyed, just transferred. Gravity is a great way to transfer it, as are other forces.

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