Comment on power generator

• 5ibelius9insterberg@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  No, wind is spinning magnets. Everything except photovoltaics and fuel cells is spinning magnets. (Everything with boiling water is also spinning magnets)

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  • bumblefumble@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You could always spin some wire and let the magnets stay still if you wanna be different.

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    • 5ibelius9insterberg@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Well… if a wire moves in a magnetic field, a current is induced. If a current runs through a wire, it generates an electromagnetic field.

      So in this case: spinning wire = spinning magnet

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  • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    There’s peltier devices, too, which use heat traveling via different metals and maybe some sort of sorcery to generate a voltage.

    Also teslacoils use a different mechanism (friction I believe), though that’s a static voltage.

    In theory, you could translate a magnet through a coil instead of just rotating it to produce a current. Lol spinning a ring magnet through a rounded coil could be a different way of using spinning magnets (assuming it isn’t already done).

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    • 5ibelius9insterberg@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      And wise-ass got outwiseassed. Chapeau

      PS: you forgot to mention piezoelectricity

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  • autriyo@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    We’re kinda just using magnets to push around other magnets remotely.

    And then there’s other stuff attached to those magnets.

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  • gnutrino@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Also primary battery cells.

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