According to [G07], a fierce cyclone produces about 10²⁵ erg of W_mec per second or 8,64 x 10⁵ PJ per day. Around 1986, all the fuels burnt in all the power stations on the planet yielded about 200PJ of Q per day. Of this, 135PJ went straight into the environment as waste heat; 65PJ were converted electric power (W_ele) per day. The cyclones' power yield is almost a million times greater than that of all the power stations on the planet. It is also larger than that of 14000 Nagasaki atom bombs exploding per second. It adds no new Q, CO₂, acid rain gasses, smoke particles or radioactivity to the environment.

A Cyclone is just moist air and energy. It needs no cylinders, pistons, spark plugs... to make huge amounts of W_mec. It needs no maintenance, its fuel costs nothing, and it removes heat from the environment rather than adding to it.

Weather maps (Fig.030) often show several cyclones turning in one way, anti-cyclones turning the other. As Espy knew, cyclones are LQ powered motors. Air is compressed centrifugally from their L cores to the H cores of anticyclones between them. Anticyclones are compressors. Air inside them warms and dries so that clouds there evaporate, the sun warms the earth, and moisture and LQ are absorbed into the heating air.

Every parcel of warmed and wetted air flows in an S-curve streamline from an anti-cyclone H to a cyclone L. As it expands tangentially down this streamline from higher to lower P, it is also compressed centrifugally radially across that streamline all the way from H to L.

The parcel is lengthened as it is compressed sideways like toothpaste being squeezed inside a tube. Compression also warms the air inside the parcel so that it accelerates parcels ahead of it around inside the cyclone and towards its L core. This added acceleration turns the cyclone, creates centrifugal forces on air parcels inside it and in adjacent anti-cyclones, and lowers P and T at the cyclone's core. As the cyclone-motor turns faster, it also raises Ps and Ts in surrounding anti-cyclones that absorb more Q off the earth there and from sunlight falling on it.