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this post was submitted on 28 Apr 2026
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Tidal is really feeding off the momentum of the planet, but yeah, that's not nuclear.
Potential energy... that's more a storage medium.
Perhaps we need to add the original energy of the big bang to nuclear. That threw things apart so they could have potential energy, and it gave a lot of matter a lot of momentum which gets topped up occasionally by a nuclear exploding star.