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From: pmk@prometheus.UUCP (Paul M Koloc)
Newsgroups: net.physics
Subject: Re: "Free Energy Machine"
Message-ID: <209@prometheus.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 13-Mar-86 00:25:20 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 13 00:25:20 1986
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Keywords: energy geomagnetic power solar aurora


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In article <1438@mhuxt.UUCP> js2j@mhuxt.UUCP writes:
>> > Unfortunately, it will not work in a closed box.  This is not a hoax:
>> > let me build it according to my plans and it will output work without
>> > being plugged into an electric outlet.  
>> 	This sounds like the "engine" in ATLAS SHRUGGED. It was built by
>> John Galt and supposedly ran on static electricity from the air.
>> jcpatilla
>
>    I know how to make one of those too!  Just put a loop of wire in a box
>oriented north and south.  Hang a wattmeter and a resistive load on the 
>terminals of the loop outside of the box.  Wait a few hundred thousand
>years for the magnetic field of the earth to flip again. 
>Jeff Sonntag ihnp4!mhuxt!js2j

Hmmmm .  .  Why not gird the earth with a "super conducting" wire
or with the present science funding crisis, perhaps just encircle
the earth's "magnetic pole".  Has anyone calculated the total
energy in the magnetic field of the earth and does it flip as a
sinesoid or a step function, and isn't the flip time closer to 
26000 years????  I would imagine that most of energy is in the
"vacuum" field component as opposed to any enhancement by the
ferromagnetic core.  Space plasma types and geo-magnetic buffs, 
what are the approximate values?  

I think I remember that "hundreds of gigawatts" of power are
dissipated in the auroras during an active "solar magnetic storm"
period, which can last several days.  How much power is available 
in just the hour to hour | day to day field fluctuations.

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