tectonic

Connect the gear at left to a tectonic plate.

Such losses cause tectonic shifts in the balance of power.

You can exert a force great enough to stop the tectonic plate's motion.

That is just an early signal of the tectonic shift occurring.

The rational had something to do with tectonic shifting eventually pushing the waste into the Earth's mantle.

And even if the gears were made of unobtanium, the whole gearbox would have to be mounted on the opposite tectonic plate on top of breakable rocks.

I don't think the mechanics of the tectonic plate exerting force on our gear system and our gear system exerting force on the tectonic plate are symmetrical.

However, what if the left gear was a pinion connected to a rack that was pushed by an extremely powerful, yet slow-moving source, such as a glacier or tectonic plate?

I've seen how cables are run in tectonic-active areas: they are provided a certain elasticity and I imagine it would be similar.

"Nope, the question here would be whether the material used to construct the left gear withstand the force that a tectonic plate exerts given that the gear system will not allow it to move.

The EPA claims victory in cleaning up the mines, but geologists point out that tectonic activity and erosion liberate and transport millions of cubic yards of asbestos.

I've been using cash for certain purchases for several years now, because consumer-protection laws, regulations, and policies are far, far, far behind the tectonic shifts that have already occurred in the world of data mining.

From Wikipedia — "Earthquake light is an unusual luminous aerial phenomenon\n that reportedly appears in the sky at or near areas of\n tectonic stress, seismic activity, or volcanic eruptions.