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- From: boswell@fnalp.fnal.gov (Chris Boswell JHU CDF (708)840-3638)
- Subject: Re: factory noise elimination?!
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- meyers@lorenz.ocean.fsu.edu (Steve Meyers) writes...
- >announced an ability to reduce or eliminate noise associated with
- >industrial production with a technique that "uses electricity".
- >I guess their claim is they can make a factory quiet. Has anyone
- >heard about this? Is it true?
- Yes, this is true. Sound waves are waves, and
- can be interfered with, both constructively and destructively.
- If I have a speaker system such that sound waves are exactly
- out of phase with the factory motor, the sound waves are cancelled.
- You can either do this right in front of your ear, or on a surface
- around the noisy motor. To do it well with today's audio technology,
- the motor has to have a very periodic sound signature,
- which most motors do.
- I am afraid I cannot find the articles I have about it,
- but search the periodical guide in a library for
- active noise elimination or electronic mufflers.
-