Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site lanl.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!cmcl2!lanl!lhl From: lhl@lanl.ARPA Newsgroups: net.astro Subject: Re: StarDate: July 11 Wind Message-ID: <28159@lanl.ARPA> Date: Thu, 11-Jul-85 11:52:17 EDT Article-I.D.: lanl.28159 Posted: Thu Jul 11 11:52:17 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 17-Jul-85 03:30:52 EDT References: <333@utastro.UUCP> Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory Lines: 12 > > On our planet Earth, the wind is always blowing somewhere. So the wind > must ve a constantly renewable source of energy. It turns out that the > wind stems from the ultimate energy source of almost everything on > Earth -- the sun. > *** OPUS LIVES !!! *** Which is puzzling: since the air is heated in the morning, and cools in the evening, why isn't there a constant wind (shock wave, actually) at the speed of the earth's rotation?