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random thought: gerating electricity: earth's magnetic feild and motion

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Actually no. In this case, the earth is the permanent magnet and what you need is a large enough conductor to sweep through the magnetic field to generate a current in. If you could get a sattelite into a sufficiently high orbit so that atmosphereic drag was minimized, you could generate sufficient power to maintain the orbit witha wire a few hundred miles long.

Of course then the wire would probably be a hazard to navigation but ignoring that, the idea could be made to work. Then too, it is much easier to just put solar panels on your space craft and enjoy the constant 1300 watts per square meter that you get in space (near the earth to be specific).

Also, the weird guy at work struck again the other day. He made me sit through a half hour video on google to show me how to build a perpetual motion machine with only permanent magnets. The fact that it only runs when someone is standing behind it pushing on one of the magnets notwithstanding, it does spin (at least until the guy walks away). :shrug: :shrug: :shrug:
 
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