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- From: sehari@iastate.edu (Babak Sehari)
- Subject: Does Sun have magnetic poles?
- Message-ID: <sehari.724447864@class1.iastate.edu>
- Originator: sehari@class1.iastate.edu
- Sender: news@news.iastate.edu (USENET News System)
- Organization: Iowa State University of Science and Technology, Ames, Iowa.
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 19:31:04 GMT
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- Recently, an attempt has been made to create electricity using a large
- electric loop in the space using earth magnetic force. However, such thing
- should not be a source of energy in the space since it takes energy to
- change the flux that passes through wire loop and only a fraction of that
- energy would be translated to electric energy. Further more, if the rotation
- of satellite itself to be used for this task, the emf back force would change
- the speed of the satellite. That results in altitude drop for satellite.
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- However, if sun should have magnetic poles and if these magnetic poles
- be strong enough, one could use earth rotation around the sun to create
- electric energy. This leads to too small a drop in the earth radius, to
- be noticeable for all practical purposes. Could someone give us some idea
- about the sun's magnetic field?
-
- With highest regards,
- Babak Sehari.
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