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Unfortunately, I didn't see a midget in the patent. 
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Probably because Rube Goldberg already has all of the patents that employ midgets.
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... I thought MHD created electricity with no moving parts?
Not that I don't think it has potential... to send most posters to sleep.Some cry `Allah O Akbar` in the street. And some carry Allah in their heart.
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MHD generators have moving parts. The plasma stream, for one."In the beginning was the Word. Then came the ******* word processor." -Dan Simmons, HyperionComment
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As the old saying goes, magnetic fields do no work. This sounds like total bull**** to me."Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. "
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Another strike against the US Patent Office. Boo.(\__/) 07/07/1937 - Never forget
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Hmm, no matter. I still intend to patent my wonderful machine: A fan blows into a propellor-powered generator...which generates electricity to turn the fan!
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Actually Ramo. Magnetic fields do the work by waiting for the world to revolve around them.
I actually think this is bunk but I always leave my mind open to stuff I don't know. If they build one I'll be in line to examine and measure it.Pax Superiore Vi Tellarum
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Can you tell me where this energy is coming from? Certainly not the magnetic field (look at Lorentz's force law)."Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. "
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Here's an interesting example of longitudinal waves:
But you probably understand ExH, so we don't need that discussion of moving a conductor through a magnetic field to get electricity.Pax Superiore Vi Tellarum
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I'm not sure what you're getting at with the link... This guy's invention still sounds like magic to me.
And yes, I'm familiar with Poynting's theorem (though have never seen it for an EM field in matter).Last edited by Ramo; May 18, 2003, 02:41."Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. "
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Yes, that requires movement, which is what this "invention" can do without.Originally posted by cia
But you probably understand ExH, so we don't need that discussion of moving a conductor through a magnetic field to get electricity.(\__/) 07/07/1937 - Never forget
(='.'=) "Claims demand evidence; extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence." -- Carl Sagan
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The world does not revolve around magnets. They revolve with the earth.Originally posted by cia
Actually Ramo. Magnetic fields do the work by waiting for the world to revolve around them.(\__/) 07/07/1937 - Never forget
(='.'=) "Claims demand evidence; extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence." -- Carl Sagan
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