Do we know what creates the wind?

[MattBooth44]

I just read up on this and I am wondering if this person could be correct. He believes that winds are created by convection currents created by the heating and cooling of air. The air over a warmer ocean coming in contact with cooler air over land or vise versa. Now he says that these effects would eventualy cancel out if it wasnt for the fact that the Earth is spinning on it's axis. Now since energy is neither created nor destroyed does that mean that the energy that powers the winds is the thermal energy from the sun or the turning of the earth? Could it be both or is it something else? If that is so does that mean that the sun is always introducing energy to us. Is it is moving energy from itself (the sun) within our galaxy to us who are further away in the galaxy? This leads me on to some questions too. Does that mean that we can take the energy that is around us in the galaxy and use it here on earth?

 

[russ_watters]

Convection caused by the sun creates wind. The Coriolis effect makes it move in the direction it moves.