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Re: Whats wrong with this CIRCUIT (was: Tethered Satellites)

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From: Martin
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1992 19:41
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srobiner@pollux.usc.edu (Steven Robiner) writes:


>Excuse me, but isn't something missing from this "Tethered Satellite"
>experiment?  The shuttle is at one end, and the satellite is at the 
>other, right?  But that's an open circuit, so where's the load
>joining the ends of this 'generator.'?

    I read in an article that there was an electron gun on the shuttle to
get rid of the excess electrons coming down the line.  
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