Termyn8or
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"I'm hearing 20 years or so as long as they aren't heated."
Then don't heat them. You could make sure the windings are made from a material that has 0.0¯ ohms per cubic centimeter, or anything actually. At room temperatures silver is the best thing we have. Alot of people think it's gold, but it is not. Gold is second. Using ordinary copper, resistive losses in the wire are dissipated in only one way - heat.
One way to alleviate that problem is to operate the device at a higher voltage, impedance that is actually. Then for consumption you do what the power company does, transform it down. However to do this it will most likely require more turns of wire, which would be a longer piece of wire right ? More resistance. With silver wire I don't know the equivalent in resistance but just for the sake of whatever let's say #22 wire could perform like #18 wire. This would allow more efficient electromagnets.
There is also the problem that the magnets will lose strength just from being "loaded". That is, opposing the force does weaken it, because.
Remember the simplistic explainaitions of magnetism, how the orbits of the electrons are aligned and all going the same way ? Well that works by a theory I can only describe as that of the swash plate on a helicopter. As force is opposed, successfully, it pulls a few orbital planes out of alignment, and so on and so on..... It might just not be the heat. How much of a factor this is I don't know, always look the gift horse in the mouth.
So the next gasoline will be magnet sets for your car ? Or perhaps refurb motors or generators ?
In a way the word paradigm was not ill chosen. Except for time. DaVinci had flight figured out before the Wright brothers were a stain in their great grandpappy's shorts. Tesla was so far ahead of his time, the materials simply didn't exist for him to explore his ideas fully.
But my point is we do too much power converting. It's too many steps. We are hooked on 120 VAC.
The financial aspect, I will only mention this because I think a couple people might like it, but this is the way I see it.
Advanced energy technologies are not explored fully, and that is because the status quoers want it that way. They like money. Generally I have no problem with that. And them gouging us, well whaddya gonna do ? But think of it this way : What if one very very rich Man, richer than Gates, maybe Soros or somebody, whatever, was the first.
One day, the first guy is going to "do it". He will not be supported by the status quoers, his ex-buddies. He would be a traitor among them. Every step would be taken to stop him, you know it because "they" have alot to lose. So he gets it done. Covertly prepares for years, unleashes kick ass technology that puts just about everything out of business. New oil out of plastic, run your car for three years for a hundred bucks. Power your house for five years for a thousand, and get to take it with you anywhere !
You think it ain't possible ? The hell it ain't. Whoever does it first is going to piss off a hell of alot of people, but if the thing works.............
Taking people off the grid for a fixed price. Can you imagine the turmoil ? They would sell like hotcakes if you remind people of a few years ago when half the country blacked out. When traffic was backed up because someone ran out of gas, which made more people run out of gas. I can't even bitch at them because without electricity, they couldn't buy gas !
This first person I empel now, would also be a hell of an asset to national security. No longer would enemies just need to get on the internet and find our power plants to cripple us. So the grid still feeds like streetlights and shit. If it goes out your food doesn't spoil. This is good all the way around.
It's a shame that on a planet of 6 billion or whatever, there is not one person with the brains, balls and means to do this. It doesn't have to be worldwide overnight. That's the fucking problem, nobody thinks shit out these days. Time and dedication are of the essence.
Fukit, this is turning into a rant and I think I donwanna. Saturday night y'know.
But really, one Man could change the future, advance it. Pester it even. Wake it up, stop the bullshit.
Gotny one in mind ?
T^T
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