5 comments

  • gcheong a day ago ago

    It's apparently been done, but the amount generated was very small and it's not clear it could be scaled up to any useful amounts.

    https://spectrum.ieee.org/earths-magnetic-field

    • keepamovin a day ago ago

      Excellent! I like it when experimentalists and technologists prove some significant set of theoreticians wrong!

    • sloaken a day ago ago

      Interesting read, thank you for finding it.

  • sloaken a day ago ago

    This seems like a very obvious solution. But of course I am ignorant on electricity generation and or the physics involved. I am hopeful someone will enlighten us.

  • keepamovin 12 hours ago ago

    Really hoping for some better, first-principles or technically comprehensive answers here from the HN hive-mega-mind....sigh. And I wasn't the only one... I reckon nobody gives out expertise for free these days, myself included, so I understand y’all’s reluctance. Double heavy sigh.