Timeline for How can a remote planet with little to no sunlight have high wind speeds?
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| Sep 24, 2022 at 17:40 | answer | added | Arcturus | timeline score: 1 | |
| S Sep 11, 2018 at 16:53 | history | bounty ended | Willk | ||
| S Sep 11, 2018 at 16:53 | history | notice removed | Willk | ||
| Sep 9, 2018 at 20:03 | comment | added | Willk | @Cort Ammon: I was interested in driving winds by tapping rotation power. I misunderstood coreoliis effect which it seems cannot add power to anything. If you have something to lay out as regards coreolis effect I would love to read it. | |
| Sep 9, 2018 at 19:48 | comment | added | Cort Ammon | @Willk With respect to your bounty, are you only interested in surface winds (which might have been used to turn wind turbines), or are you also interested in winds that are further up. Everything I'm finding suggests the surface winds due to rotation will be weak, but I'm less confident that that holds true at higher altitudes once the coreolis effect comes into play. | |
| Sep 7, 2018 at 17:24 | comment | added | kingledion | @Willk The rotation speed thing won't work (or, at least, I can't figure out how to make it work), but I got some alternatives. | |
| Sep 7, 2018 at 17:23 | answer | added | kingledion | timeline score: 6 | |
| Sep 7, 2018 at 5:52 | history | edited | SRM |
Remove tag that conflicts with “science-based” tag.
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| Sep 7, 2018 at 1:25 | answer | added | John Locke | timeline score: 3 | |
| S Sep 6, 2018 at 12:13 | history | bounty started | Willk | ||
| S Sep 6, 2018 at 12:13 | history | notice added | Willk | Authoritative reference needed | |
| S Sep 3, 2018 at 19:22 | history | suggested | John Locke |
added 3 tags, removed 1. Science-based and reality-check are contrasting tags and should not be used together.
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| Sep 3, 2018 at 19:22 | comment | added | L.Dutch♦ | Please pick one tag between science based and reality check. They don't go together. | |
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| Aug 30, 2018 at 9:42 | comment | added | Boolean | Nice spin on my question. Well done! | |
| Aug 30, 2018 at 0:36 | answer | added | Tim B II | timeline score: 6 | |
| Aug 29, 2018 at 22:06 | answer | added | UrQuan3 | timeline score: 2 | |
| Aug 29, 2018 at 19:05 | vote | accept | J0hn | ||
| Aug 29, 2018 at 18:20 | comment | added | Ghedipunk | Geological and atmospheric processes that are very Earth-like but not water based can still exist on icy worlds, of course. A very interesting world is the moon Titan. | |
| Aug 29, 2018 at 18:18 | comment | added | Ghedipunk | @Alexander, I would assume that it would have to be a frozen world. Since stars all vary in size and heat, the only real way to measure "little to no sunlight" would be distance from a star's goldilocks zone, with Venus, Earth, and Mars all inside of Sol's goldilocks zone where, if there were an Earth-like atmosphere, we can expect liquid water on the surface. If there's little sunlight, then there's less heat than there is on Mars, so it has to, by definition, be an icy world. | |
| Aug 29, 2018 at 18:17 | comment | added | Willk | Can I summon @kingdelion? King, pull across your sweet math from here worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/74099/… to show how a very fast rotation speed could produce the desired winds. | |
| Aug 29, 2018 at 18:17 | answer | added | Logan R. Kearsley | timeline score: 5 | |
| Aug 29, 2018 at 18:13 | comment | added | Alexander | @Ghedipunk I am trying to see exactly how much sunlight (or other sources of heat) we have here. I don't think OP has a frozen world like Pluto in mind. | |
| Aug 29, 2018 at 18:10 | comment | added | Ghedipunk | @Alexander, generally the further from a star that a planet sits, the thicker its atmosphere, because the solar wind wouldn't be stripping it away as quickly. Of course, this is just one of MANY factors that matter; for instance Venus has a thick atmosphere because it's largely CO2 based, and Mars has a very thin atmosphere because it doesn't have a magnetic field to keep the solar wind at bay. | |
| Aug 29, 2018 at 18:07 | comment | added | Alexander | If the planet has very little sunlight, what would make its atmosphere gaseous in the first place? | |
| Aug 29, 2018 at 18:06 | comment | added | Ghedipunk | Neptune's wind speeds reach 1500 mph, and gets about 1/1000th the sunlight as Earth, due to being 30 times further away. Of course, the process on a gas giant is different from a rocky planet that humans might build a base on. space.com/21157-uranus-neptune-winds-revealed.html | |
| Aug 29, 2018 at 18:06 | comment | added | Willk | I wondered this too. Good question! | |
| Aug 29, 2018 at 18:02 | answer | added | L.Dutch♦ | timeline score: 13 | |
| Aug 29, 2018 at 17:56 | history | asked | J0hn | CC BY-SA 4.0 |