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Article #1043Re: magnetic propulsion
From: doug_rands_merritt
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 1988 22:18
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 1988 22:18
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I suggest you check the literature for particle accellerators, especially linear accellerators. There's lots of good stuff there. What you're asking for wasn't 100% clear to me, but...I recall an article in a 1967 issue of Popular Science that showed a magnetically propelled submarine, about 10 feet long, that worked via (I think) the "Lorentz effect". One set of coils set up a magnetic field in the conducting sea water, another set set up an oscillating field opposed to the first set, and off it went at about 1/2 mph. They specifically said it wouldn't work in fresh water due to the lack of conductivity. I've always wondered if you could do something similar using the magnetic field of the earth as the first field. Doug
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