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by candiddevmike 1093 days ago
Can you harvest energy from this somehow?
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No
Aww
why? too weak?
Yes. It would be like trying to harvest energy from vibrating sound waves, whilst using a sensitive microphone that requires orders of energy more to function.

With sound waves you could use a really super thin piece of metal that vibrates to sound itself, in which you could harvest sound energy. But gravitational waves? I don't know how easy that would be.

Maybe a super long and rigid cable, positioned thousands of kilometers apart that bends ever so slightly to changes in their anchors.... though I'm sure any energy harvested from that would have gravitational waves as their least contributing factor.

Not enough to be useful. In the case of these extremely low-frequency waves, also not enough to be measurable.
If you were very close to the origins, perhaps.

Though in that event, I suspect you might be having other priorities.