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Manderus99

Can you create power by orbiting?

Physics

Electricity is created by sending a magnet through a coil of wire, or by spinning a coil around a magnet, but what if the moving magnet was orbiting the moon, and a coil orbiting in the opposite direction. Would this eliminate the need of a turbine as the pull of the moon would move the magnet, or would it not work?

Posted May 29, 2016, 8:26 PM UTC

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