You'd have to move the wire in the circuit across the lines of flux,
and this would take work, because the magnetic field would resist the
motion.

If you'd like, do the experiment, loft 10,000 miles of copper wire
into orbit, them put your VOM across the ends, now using a tiny
spaceship, move the wire with a componant normal the the lines of
flux, see the needle deflect.

One of the great things about fresh eyes on a problem is they haven't
accepted all the assumptions that everyone else has already made, so
you really get some out of the box ideas.

What about that tide powered generator idea. Use the force of the
moon's gravitational field to lift water. At low tide, release the
water through turbines and generate some electricity. Although if you
did this enough, the moon would eventually become one with the earth.
=^(

terra wrote in message ...
terra wrote:
I want to describe a clever generator here, and hear what you people think of
this idea.

Thanks everybody, even CSA722. The idea isn't really mine, and I wanted to see
how some other aviation-oriented people would respond to it. I'm an A&P student
and (I'm wincing while writing this) my Electrical Theory instructor dropped
this bomb on the class. I've become known as the guy who always badgers the
instructor because I disagree with him constantly, but now it's time to just let
things go. He's had enough of me.

I expected to see some scoffing here, but I got some really pleasant replies. I
could have done a lot better at persuading "Garfield" that he's wrong about some
things. I simply pushed. Naturally, he pushed back. I failed.