• 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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      2 hours ago

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

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