[Pearls Before Swine]

Yay-uh.

I always thought that, if they really trapped the tides for hydro power generation, it would put a drag on the earth-moon interaction and slow down the earth’s rotation... a wee bit.

Didn’t worry about it none, though.

[PROCON]

I’m no science guy, but I smell BS all over this “study”.

[kiryandil]

If we synchronized through Facebook & Twitter everyone in the world jumping into the air at the EXACT SAME TIME, I think that it would fix the wobble.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I always thought that, if they really trapped the tides for hydro power generation, it would put a drag on the earth-moon interaction and slow down the earth’s rotation... a wee bit.

Almost certainly true, the lagging response of ocean tides is the primary cause of moon-dragging causing the earth to slow down (about 0.002 seconds per day per century) and the moon to move into a higher orbit (about a 3.8 cm per year.)