Comprehensive_Tap131 OP t1_iugpp4l wrote on October 31, 2022 at 4:50 AM

Reply to comment by abat6294 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

Literally not energy from gravity, scientifically

Edit: That energy comes from sunlight

abat6294 t1_iuhbs1x wrote on October 31, 2022 at 10:14 AM

But where does the energy from the sunlight come from? You can keep going with your argument - all the way back to the big bang. What makes you think the true source is sunlight?