{"id":209396,"date":"2025-03-21T06:23:46","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T11:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/attempt-to-harness-energy-from-earths-rotation"},"modified":"2025-03-21T06:23:46","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T11:23:46","slug":"attempt-to-harness-energy-from-earths-rotation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/attempt-to-harness-energy-from-earths-rotation","title":{"rendered":"Attempt to Harness Energy from Earth\u2019s Rotation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/attempt-to-harness-energy-from-earths-rotation.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Experiments support a controversial proposal to generate electricity from our planet\u2019s rotation by using a device that interacts with Earth\u2019s magnetic field.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt seems crazy,\u201d says Chris Chyba of Princeton University, talking about the hollow magnetic cylinder he has built to generate electricity using Earth\u2019s magnetic field. The cylinder doesn\u2019t move\u2014at least not in the lab\u2014but it rotates with the planet and is thus dragged through Earth\u2019s magnetic field. \u201cIt has a whiff of a perpetual motion machine,\u201d Chyba says, but his calculations show that the harvested energy comes from the planet\u2019s rotational energy. He and his colleagues now report that 18 microvolts (\u00b5V) are generated across the cylinder when it is held perpendicular to Earth\u2019s field [<a href=\"https:\/\/physics.aps.org\/articles\/v18\/62#c1\" class=\"\">1<\/a>]. Next they have to convince other scientists that the effect is real.<\/p>\n<p>Chyba became interested in electricity generation about a decade ago while studying a possible warming mechanism in moons moving through a planet\u2019s magnetic field. He wondered if a similar effect might occur for objects on Earth\u2019s surface.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experiments support a controversial proposal to generate electricity from our planet\u2019s rotation by using a device that interacts with Earth\u2019s magnetic field. \u201cIt seems crazy,\u201d says Chris Chyba of Princeton University, talking about the hollow magnetic cylinder he has built to generate electricity using Earth\u2019s magnetic field. The cylinder doesn\u2019t move\u2014at least not in the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}