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Old 03-05-2006 | 12:33 PM
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Jim Thomerson
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Default RE: gliders

OK, point well taken. However, without gravity, there would be no conversion of potential energy into thrust. If there were no gravity, your weight, skier and glider would just sit where you put them.

Hydropower is solar power in that the sun powered the lifting of the water into the clouds. However if the water did not want to run down hill, the turbines would not turn. All very interesting, and I see your point.