Comments by "" (@TheDavidlloydjones) on "Tidal Power: Unlocking the Greatest Untapped Energy Resource on the Planet | FD Engineering" video.

  1. Because interfering with the tides by putting harvester propellers underwater is exerting a force against the Moon and bringing it closer and closer to Earth. Consider the pachinko machines: all the pachinko parlours in the world are illuminated with electric lights (even though the machines themselves are hand-powered, to flip the balls.) If all the roughly 13,000 pachinko parlours in the world have an average of, say, 750 kilowatts of electric lights and air conditioning, that would come to thirteen million horses pulling the Moon toward the Earth. Slowly, slowly, spiralling in, that could be the end of us all in 4,177,934,427 years. And between eight and nine months! That's within a few hundred million years of the time there has been life on Earth. Plus or minus eight or nine months. And pachinko parlours are not the only thing consuming electricity. I forgot about all the other stuff. Oops. Be careful what you wish for. Also don't play pachinko.
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