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- Path: sparky!uunet!mnemosyne.cs.du.edu!nyx!rkornilo
- From: rkornilo@nyx.cs.du.edu (ryan korniloff)
- Subject: ReEe: aA 12 mile tether that gernerates 5000v?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.054058.15957@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Sender: usenet@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu (netnews admin account)
- Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 92 05:40:58 GMT
- Lines: 35
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- >Path: mnemosyne.cs.du.edu!uunet!olivea!tymix!rael!filfeit
- >From: filfeit@rael.Tymnet.COM (Fil Feit)
- >Newsgroups: sci.space
- >Subject: A 12 mile tether that generates 5000v?
- >Message-ID: <2177@tymix.Tymnet.COM>
- >Date: 30 Jul 92 19:10:32 GMT
- >Sender: usenet@tymix.Tymnet.COM
- >Reply-To: filfeit@rael.Tymnet.COM
- >Organization: Sun Microsystems
- >Lines: 14
- >Nntp-Posting-Host: rael
- >
- >Hi all.
- >
- >Can someone explain how that works? I saw reference to this on the AP
- >wire, and they must think this is perfectly normal, since no-one is
- >bothering to explain it.
- >
- >Is there an article on this some kind soul can direct me towards?
- >
- >Thanks,
- >
- >--f2
- >----------------------------------
- > Hey, Mother Earth, won't you bring me back down,
- > safely to the sea?
-
- The 5000 volts are induced by the Earth's magnetic field as the spacecraft
- orbits. The same principle in using magnets to enduce a voltage when you
- pass a magnet through a coil of wire.
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-
- -- Ryan Korniloff
- -- rkornilo@nyx.cs.du.edu
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