Short: A team of physicists believe that it may be possible to harvest power using the Earth’s rotation through their own magnetic field, and they have published a paper that involves a test that manifests to validate the concept.
The study published in the Journal Physical Review Research, makes the team at work held in 2016 and an idea dating back at least in 1832. Using a cylindrical shell made of manganese-zinc ferrite, a length of 29.9 cm was deployed and a specific angle (57.5 °), a voltage of 18 microlands was measured. Generally, any voltage created will be canceled by electrons to re -organize itself, but it was not so with hollow cylindrical shell.
When the cylinder was rotated 90 degrees, the current became zero. Rotated another 90 degrees, it returned but the opposite signal. Testing with a solid shell produced zero voltage on all bends.
Physicists took every precaution to affect the test by any local stimuli. The experiment occurred in an underground, windowless laboratory with less 60 Hz and RF backgrounds and under a limited temperature range. They were also capable of re -introducing the results at another place, about 3.5 miles from a residential building laboratory. The note is also the fact that the approximate effect disappeared when used in a Faraday cage.
The results are complicated to say at least, but further studies are required.
One of the three authors of the study, Christopher F. Chiba admitted that the amount of electricity generated by the experiments was “miniskules” and it could not be possible to scale things up to a useful level. The tests were also conducted with a very specific set of requirements and materials.
The first thing that needs to be, Chiba said, independent groups will need to reproduce their results – or revolt. For example, testing in various environments can help determine whether there was a hidden source of electricity that was not responsible by the researchers.
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