Re: Power source

Kenneth Carrigan ( (no email) )
Mon, 21 Sep 1998 11:16:14 -0400

Yes.. very true. However.. practicallity.
Frictional losses from brushes, bushing/bearings, air... etc accounts
for more loss than energy taken out. The voltage is also low.. but
the current is high... so this makes a super low impedance source,
to which it is tuff to match to any load.

v/r Ken Carrigan

>Say if you had a metal plate that spun around fast enough so as to spin its
>electrons out to the side by the centripetal force. Then you you placed one
>brush on the outside and one on the inside of the plate could you use this
>as a power supply. The power could loop around in this circuit.
> Any comments.
>
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