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Re: NASA's Tethered Generator



Subject: Re: NASA's Tethered Generator
  Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 13:35:48 -0500
  From: David Huffman <huffman-at-FNAL.GOV>
    To: Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>


Ok if B=0.2Gauss, L=20.7km and v=12,000 m/s
emf = BLv = 4997 volts.
One end is 'grounded' in the ionosphere the other flows current with
electron accelerators.
The loop is the Earth and the universe.
D.L.Huffman

snip

> you
> should take a wire connected to a meter and move it thru a magnetic
> field.
> You will induce an emf according to the equation
> 
>                      emf = BLv      
> 
> where emf is the electromagnetic force, B is the magnetic force, L
the
> length of wire, and v the velocity of the wire thru the field. This
is
> what
> the shuttle tether is doing. The return conductor is the
ionosphere.
> 
>   John Couture
>