Date: Wed Mar 18 15:40:36 2009 ** **Back to Contents ** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **

Author: Paul Nord

Subject: Re: Power Lines and cows?

Post:

BC,

No... or probably not much. But the earth rotates. And a conductor
moving in a magnetic field will produce an induced voltage.

Paul

On Mar 18, 2009, at 2:08 PM, Bernard Cleyet wrote:

> The earth's mag. field rotates?
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> bc
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> On 2009, Mar 18, , at 07:40, Paul Nord wrote:
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>> Do north-south power lines induce a DC current as they spin through
>> earth's magnetic field?
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