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It's supposedly taking the equivalent of 2e20 joules, or roughly the
equal of 7.2e21 KW worth of gravity force(Fg), as for representing the
equivalent in centripetal force(Fc) of mutually holding onto our moon,
or perhaps its actually a little of vise versa.

How much of that energy budget is getting transferred into Earth? (<
7.2e21 KW ?)

How about allowing 0.0001% of just 1/6th = 1.2e15 KW
That's only 2.347 KW/m2, or rather a wussy 1.1075e-3 W/m3 [excluding
our atmosphere], or perhaps as little a 1.1 mw/m3 including the volume
of our wet atmosphere) seems rather insignificant, doesn't it.

Gravity has certainly been one of those real measured forces, and the
associated energy of that force is clearly going to/from somewhere
other than into thin air (sort of speak).  Much of earth's surface and
especially of its interior is not a solid, and of such fluid stuff
(including our polluted and wet atmosphere) is affected by and thus
moved along by those unavoidable interactions of the moon's gravity,
of which is causing all sorts of friction.

Earth's moon is considerably more than a thousand fold of greater mass
per ratio of it's planet than any other moon within our solar system,
with the exception of those icy little binary planets or the likes of
Oort cloud debris that simply arnt all that robust to start with, and
much less the least bit internally fluid, whereas our moon is
certainly close by and fast moving enough to having a significant
tidal impact (inside and out) upon our environment.

Then we have our moon's (IR)radiance = ? w/m2
Like a mirror that's better at reflecting IR photons (certainly way
better than Earth's albedo that's supposedly contributing a total IR
planetshine worth of 266 w/m2 [with hardly any of those FIR photons to
spare}, whereas that naked and physically dark moon is unavoidably
creating those secondary/recoil worthy FIR photons, is why there's a
fairly substantial IR/FIR terrestrial influx that's measurably good
for having contributed a little something of extra applied energy into
our GW situation. (too bad we still haven't established a moon L1
science platform for actively telling us this essential information)

In the past I've often asked the question;  are we being global warmed
to death by our moon?

In more ways than not, I believe the regular laws of physics and of
the best available science has been telling us the truth, that in fact
we are being warmed to death by our moon that has only been with us
since the last ice age this planet will ever see.

Too bad we're not ever going to get ourselves smart enough for
relocating that nasty moon of ours out to Earth's L1, for
accomplishing such moderation of that pesky tidal force, and for
otherwise obtaining shade to burn (sort of speak), and we could still
have the LSE-CM/ISS along with its nifty tether dipole element hosting
the best NEO diverting laser cannon, plus loads of nifty Star Wars
stuff to boot.
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Brad Guth