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Researchers have discovered a magnetic equivalent to electricity: single magnetic charges that can behave and interact like electrical ones.
The work is the first to make use of the magnetic monopoles that exist in special crystals known as spin ice.
Writing in Nature journal, a team showed that monopoles gather to form a "magnetic current" like electricity.
The phenomenon, dubbed "magnetricity", could be used in magnetic storage or in computing.
Originally posted by BluePillOrRedPill
In the article:
"These crystals are made up of pyramids of charged atoms"
A possible energy source that takes the form of a pyramid? hmmm? No wonder everyone made pyramids back in antiquity. Very cool news Warrenb. Hopefully a step closer to free or cheaper energy. S&F.
RedPill
Originally posted by AwakeAndAware
Isn't this the same thing that Nikola Tesla did many many years ago ?? He was able to power a light bulb just by shoving a rod in the ground. The government carted away all his research after his death.
Originally posted by rickyrrr
Originally posted by AwakeAndAware
Isn't this the same thing that Nikola Tesla did many many years ago ?? He was able to power a light bulb just by shoving a rod in the ground. The government carted away all his research after his death.
This is different from what Tesla did. Tesla did a lot of research on wireless transmission of power and some research involving harvesting energy from electric potentials generated by the earth's atmosphere. I am of course paraphrasing, I'm not an expert on Tesla's work. But his inventions were based on well known electromagnetic principles, like Maxwell's equations and stuff like that.
This is subatomic level stuff that is, as far as I can tell, still quite far from practical use. It employs magnetic monopoles, which as the time I went to college were believed to be impossible. So there is something promising about this, though it's hard (at least for me) to tell what could be done with it.
-rrr
Originally posted by milkmustache
This is bogus, I totally came up with this in my other life, I remember when I came out with the original twitter around 100 B.C and Julius Caesar stole the rights, so I showed them how lead improved taste and how they could form it into some crude plumbing pipes to bring in drinking water, so who's the boss? Not Tony Danza I can tell you that much.