Earth is two back to back unipolar generators

[Yucca]

@Sparks,
If earth is a genny and causing all that liguid metal and rock to stay molten then it doesn´t appear to have much backdrag which is pretty cool! I can´t find a decent answer anywhere about what causes magma, it has to be electric in my mind, just a bit of tectonic moving from tidal forces cant generate all that power.

There´s alot about mother earth that we´re not told like she´s expanding  :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kL7qDeI05U

The only rebuttals I´ve heard about the above vid involve people saying "i asked my professor and he said no" etc.

Well I think if your magnet is turning together with the conductor no eddy current will develop.
Otherwise the rotation of every normal magnet (as usually they are also conductors) should immediately incur eddy currents, which would decelerate the magnet...But as far as my personal experience with magnets goes, this doesn't happen...

But I wouldn't bet my hand on that  (these homopolar generators are really tricky...)

@Shanti
Yes, they´re fascinating things. Maybe this experiment would yield more info:

Magnet rotating (nickel coated neo).

Radial drawing conductor also rotating but shielded from the mag field.

To check for generated voltage could maybe use a small low leakage cap with a zero bias feed diode, the componets spinning in series with the shielded radial conductor line all epoxied in place and balanced, then meter the cap after a good spin.

[madddann]

@Sparks

"Theoretically a conductor could be run between the poles and equator and a pretty massive current then captured at a gap in this conductor.  This conductor would have to be of less resistance than salt water.  Pretty big piece of wire. Tongue"

- I think that all we really need is air and big stones - does the word Stonehenge ring any bells? How? By creating a standing wave between stones we can create a superconducting power line and it can be perfectly introduced in the environment - no pollution, no nothing, pure power.
Ancient civilizations were more clever than most of us today.

Peace
Dann

[sparks]

   
Standing waves are cool.   You can use real low frequency standing waves to do all sorts of weird science.  You want distance you dont mess around with much over a few hz.   Like the blocks in the pyramids over the kings coffin.  Whales can get the power out over thousands of miles because they use elf and the tympanic membrane they have is all around a huge resonant cavity to observe the intensity of the wave as it stretches out setting up nodes thousands of miles away.  The dolphins use vlf radar like fields to hunt. 

[jadaro2600]

The earth battery, sorry, no link, comes to mind.

Perhaps hertzian conditions bolster the power of these devices through a homopolar differential as the periphery of the earth ( ground ) and whatever distance or configuration attached to the same.

I belive, that even if you had a wire sitting geostationary around earth, it would still generate electricity regardless of it motion due to relative motion around the sun.  Yet another homopolar perhaps, our sun?  The static electricity effect is strong in space, read my previous post above.  Vacuums have potential.

[Michelinho]

Hi,

In choosing the conductor, the ground resistance is to be consider too. The resistance of the soil varies from 30 ohms to 3,000 ohms in the first 10 meters and then pretty much stays the same. I remember reading or being told that. So according to that recollection, the wire must have a resistance of less than 3,000 ohms.

Resistance implies heat in the ground is produce by the action of the Telluric currents. Long distance power lines must be affected too by the difference in potential.

Take care,

Michel

Edited.
P.S.: the string in space are Bikerland currents, see the Electric Universe http://www.thunderbolts.info/online_videos.htm for an overview of the theory.