• 5ibelius9insterberg@feddit.org
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      3 hours ago

      No, wind is spinning magnets. Everything except photovoltaics and fuel cells is spinning magnets. (Everything with boiling water is also spinning magnets)

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        1 hour ago

        There’s peltier devices, too, which use heat traveling via different metals and maybe some sort of sorcery to generate a voltage.

        Also teslacoils use a different mechanism (friction I believe), though that’s a static voltage.

        In theory, you could translate a magnet through a coil instead of just rotating it to produce a current. Lol spinning a ring magnet through a rounded coil could be a different way of using spinning magnets (assuming it isn’t already done).

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          45 minutes ago

          Well… if a wire moves in a magnetic field, a current is induced. If a current runs through a wire, it generates an electromagnetic field.

          So in this case: spinning wire = spinning magnet

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        We’re kinda just using magnets to push around other magnets remotely.

        And then there’s other stuff attached to those magnets.