Does tidal power weaken gravity?

[humility]

Since tidal power basically turns gravity into electricity does this slightly weaken gravity? If you had enough tidal power stations, would the moon fly off?

 

I have no idea how this works.

[swansont]

No, it does not weaken gravity. Since the moon is receding at only a few cm a year, strengthening the tidal coupling (which I believe is at the high end of what it's historically been) would increase that, but hardly to the point where the moon would "fly off"

[humility]

wow I was surprisingly close.

[Bender]

For the same reason, the Earths rotation slows down.

[humility]

If you brought water in from europa or something and filled the space around the planet with barfels of water each with a tidal generator in it. With enough barrels could you use up all the gravity of a moment?

[Janus]

Since tidal power basically turns gravity into electricity does this slightly weaken gravity? If you had enough tidal power stations, would the moon fly off?

 

I have no idea how this works.

Tidal power does not turn gravity into electricity, it uses gravitational interaction to convert some of the rotational kinetic energy of the Earth into electricity. ( and since there is a hell of a lot of that, we are not going to use it up any time sonn