We harvest angular momentum from the earth all the time. The reason we do planetary flybys with our probes are for “gravity boosts”, but it’s not actually gravitational energy the probe is harvesting, but actually angular momentum. The earth’s rotation slows down just an absolute miniscule bit, and the probe gets a bunch of kinetic energy in return. The energy is angular momentum, transferred via gravitational/tidal effects on the probe.
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