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Re: Melting a planet's core
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Thu, 12 Jun 2003 19:22:35 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Tom Sciortino wrote:
> Well, if you could surround the planet with a powerful changing magnetic
> field, I believe you could heat the core using hysteresis. But I don't know
> how that would work. I suppose you might wrap several loops of wire around
> the planet and then run a (very very big) alternating current through it to
> create the magnetic field. Then sit back and let the H field do it's thing
> in the core.
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> Single magnetic poles don't seem exist in nature (else, you could orbit a
> super-strong north pole around the planet and a corresponding south pole on
> the opposite side). While they don't seem to exist, I'm pretty sure it has
> not been proven that they *can't* exist, so if you wanted to make some ship
> that generates one end of a magnetic pole, I think the pseudo-science would
> be true enough...
> So, ya gonna build us a pair of Magneto-polar generator
> ships? ;)
Nope! but it's a good idea though. Have to be fusion powered I reckon.
Steve
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| "Steven lane" <steveroblane@aol.com> wrote in message news:HG9vo5.1099@lugnet.com... (...) it's (...) deflected (...) lost (...) of the (...) planet and (...) moving (...) the (...) the (...) sustain (...) Well, if you could surround the planet (...) (21 years ago, 12-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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