Comprehensive_Tap131 OP t1_iugo9ma wrote on October 31, 2022 at 4:33 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

Basically asking as you carry that bowling ball up hill to a higher altitude are you simply storing potential energy? To be released whenever? Bowling ball sits there for 100 years until ground erodes and it then flies down to sea level or whatever. Is that really simply the storage of potential energy? I put energy in that bowling ball by carrying it uphill?

abat6294 t1_iuhbobp wrote on October 31, 2022 at 10:13 AM

Yes, you have that exactly correct.