John thanks for your comments and thoughts, stimulating discussion.

I see it as nature creating wind, by putting solar Joules to use. By using wind, we take Joules back out, which were put to use by nature, from the sun. Geothermal is something I've had arguments with some scientists about, It does not make Engineering sense that the heat of Earth is generated by some kind of movement of magnetic fields, if you ever tried to move an alternator manually with your hand, whilst switching on and off an electrical heating load to the alternator, it is obvious that the kinetic energy required to generate significant heat energy is huge, A typical room heater is 1KW. An Olympic cyclist can manage maybe 700 Watts for a few minutes at max sprint. if the heat in Earth was powered by the spinning mass of Earth alone, it would have ground to a halt within a revolution or two.

it makes far simpler sense that the heat within Earth is simply residual heat, preserved by the thermal mass of Earth, from a massive energy process that happened long ago. I still say it makes perfect sense we were ejected from the sun as volcanic mass at some more active time in the sun's history, but it doesn't matter, what matters is we should accept that tapping off any of the heat energy from Earth irreversibly lowers the core temperature, even if by initially infinitesimal amounts (Look what cutting down the first tree led to!), the end result of doing it too much would be existential, it seems to me.

Indeed your conclusion looks same as mine, it looks to me like the sun drives pretty much all things too.