[BlueDragon]

I am NOT beings nasty here-——can a storm really suck energy out of the ocean?

Heat. That's where it starts.

Add a bit of movement (that had origniated from heat, and rotation of the planet, and tug of the moon, and everything and anything that can make something else -like, air- move), then keep stirring in more heat = more movement. Keep traveling over yet more water (with heat) pulling that energy up with the moisture.

= wind energy.

Gotta' admit. 185 winds are a lot of "energy".

Roughly speaking here. I'm just an amateur.

Like a Hurricane

[Mears]

Thanks for the info——and Neil Young-——that takes me back.

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