Earth's tidal energy source path.

[Plasmadoo]

Hello everyone, i am a newbie.
Having unsuccessfully searched the forums, i see there is much discussion of tidal forces but is anyone able to trace back the source path for earth's tidal energy given that i believe the moon is moving slightly further away from the earth if anything ? Maybe it could come from electromagnetic propulsion to the moon which is now in roughly dynamic equilibrium where the earth's tidal buckling resistance ? Redirect's accepted gratefully.

[Total Science]

My advice: Forget tides and start thinking about electricity and magnetism.

"Determination of absolute 'Earth-Moon' distances and Earth's palaeorotational parameters in the distant geological past from tidal rhythmite, however, is ambiguous because of the difficulties in determining the absolute length of the ancient lunar sidereal month." — Rajat Mazumder and Makoto Arima, geologists, July 2004

"Currently, the moon is moving away from the Earth at such a great rate, that if you extrapolate back in time — the moon would have been so close to the Earth 1.4 billion years ago that it would have been torn apart by tidal forces (Slichter, 1963)." — Dennis D. McCarthy, geoscientist, 2003

"The implications of employing the present rate of tidal energy dissipation on a geological timescale are catastrophic. Around 1500 Ma the Moon would have been close to the Earth, with the consequence that the much larger tidal forces would have disrupted the Moon or caused the total melting of Earth's mantle and of the moon." -- George E. Williams, geologist/geophysicist, 2000

"…it does not seem likely that it will ever be possible to evaluate the effective rigidity of the earth's mass by means of tidal observations." — George H. Darwin, physicist, 1907

"…in the course of our experiments, we were led away from the primary object of the Committee, namely, the measurement of the Lunar Disturbance of Gravity…." — George H. Darwin, physicist, 1882

"Among the great men who have philosophized about [the action of the tides], the one who surprised me most is Kepler. He was a person of independent genius, [but he] became interested in the action of the moon on the water, and in other occult phenomena, and similar childishness." — Galileo Galilei, physicist, 1632

[Plasmadoo]

Thank you for your collection of quotes TS. My apologies at the late reply. I take it there is no easy answer to identifying the energy source path. I have never received a convincing reply to this question. However i cannot help feeling this should be an easy problem to solve - perhaps there is something obvious i am missing. I postulate an electromagnetic process taking place as the next step back along the path. Tidal resistance should have the effect over time of making the moon appear fixed in position above a point on the earth but the earth's rotation is constantly being fed by an electromagnetic process taking place between the sun and the earth.A sort of linear motor if you will. I have never seen this suggested elsewhere though.